Cicero begins his (surely youthful) de Inventione wondering whether the past glories of rhetoric and public persuasion had not done more harm than good: "not the least part" of the many disasters that had befallen Rome and the other great cities of the past had been brought on by the art of disertissimos homines.
Quaero: What, if anything, are the connotations of disertus for Cicero? Do they change over the course of his career?
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