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Monday, August 23, 2004
Barking
Cicero, Brutus 58:
For nowadays certain orators bark rather than speak. (latrant enim iam quidam oratores, non loquuntur.)
This is true in our day especially of some politicians (e.g. Senator Edward Kennedy), sportscasters, and preachers in certain denominations.