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Previous chapter Rhythm as Ornament of Speech – Cicero's De oratore As one may know, in De oratore, Cicero exposes through the character of Crassus a full-fledged theory of rhetoric. The latter starts his speech by emphasizing that there is no science, that is no speculatively elaborated knowledge of oratory and that this theory in modern sense is no theoria in Latin or Greek sense. It is much closer to the practical knowledge gathered through - Sur le concept de rythme – Nouvel article