Talk:Orator (Cicero)

Delectare was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 14 November 2013 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Orator (Cicero). The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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As a result of the AfD discussion, I have created the section, "Goals of the Orator." This section does not copy the old article, since on inspection of the source, delectare is not a stand-alone goal that can be separated from the other two goals. The previous article's understanding of delectare as, for example, the style of a modern comedian is unsupported either by the cited text or by Cicero's original. --Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 16:14, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work, thanks Depthdiver (talk) 18:41, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I no expert on this material, but your merge looks good and seems representative of the sources. Thanks, --Mark viking (talk) 19:16, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]