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And along with this quality, the mira elegantia of Quintilian, his oratory had some kind of severe magnificence which we can partly guess at from his extant writings magnifica et generosa, says Cicero; facultas dicendi imperatoria is the phrase of a later and able critic. Of Caesar's other lost writings little need be said.
Pro-venit enim ibi, ut ab herbariis accepi, tragium dictamnum Cretense, chamaeleon bigenum, draucus, meum, nardus, celtica, anonides, anemone, peucedamum, turbit, reubarbarum, pyrethrum, juniperus ubertim, stellarla, imperatoria, cardus masticem fundens, dracagas, cythisus whence likewise the magnificent cheeses; gold and the Phrygian stone, he adds, are also found here.
In this restricted sense Tacitus always uses the word, because it was understood with that signification by every Roman of his time. For example, in his Agricola , he means by "imperatoria laus" "the renown in arms of the Emperor," who was then Domitian.
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