speak-learn

Updated: May 23, 2025

It must be remembered that the great man took no payment either from client or from pupil. But the young Roman had not only to learn law, he must also learn how to speak-learn, as far as such a thing can be learned, how to be eloquent. What we in this country call the career of the public man was there called the career of the orator.

Alfred John Church - Roman life in the days of Cicero