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And this is as far as I'm going in the De Oratore. With any luck, I'll pick up with Caesar, fighting random dudes, over winter break. For now, I need to go put together an explanation of my highly theoretical high-percentage-of-the-grade Latin paper. (And go work on my Greek.)

For now, let's see what Cicero has to say about the use of "transferred words", by which he seems to include metaphors, similes, and words that mean different things in different contexts. It's all good for oratory.

( Metaphor! )

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Greek! This is as far as I'm likely to get in posting for this play, as we just don't have enough time in class to cover more of it except in translation. I do recommend reading on (or can track down an OOC translation to post here if people want), to find out the DRAMATIC CONCLUSION to this tragedy.

(Spoiler! Not everyone dies.)

Meanwhile, let's go see what Electra's awesome plan is. It is not awesome. And I'm not really sure how everyone has jumped from "Let's get murderous revenge before dying!" into the assumption that if they do this, they'll somehow also get to live; I honestly don't see how you'd end up less sentenced to death after murdering more folks who were nominally your allies, but what do I know?

( She has a theory! It could be murder. )