Cicero spoke of many things, but all of them in the same sentence.
By barbarians, I think Caesar was referring to the French, the Germans and the English.
At any rate, buoyed by his descriptions and my success in being able to decode them, in college I ventured boldly where no Hall had ever gone before…Latin III.
Talk about the three-strikes-rule and your out! I should have stayed with Latin II and the barbarians.
Latin III was a disaster. Here we studied Cicero, one of Rome's outstanding orators.
The signature of a good orator, in those days was one who spoke (wrote) in long sentences. And Cicero was not just good, he was great!
I don't recall, for the two weeks I lasted in the class, coming across a sentence that was less than two pages long.