Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Differences of Genre -- Orations -- Philosophical Treatises -- Rhetorical Treatises -- Letters -- Poetry -- Official Documents (and Historiography) -- An Interim Balance -- Chapter Two: Nuances of Style Within Individual Works -- Orations -- Philosophical Treatises -- Rhetorical Treatises -- Letters -- Poetry -- Chapter Three: Chronological Development of Style -- Orations -- Philosophical Treatises -- Rhetorical Treatises -- Letters -- Poetry -- Conclusion -- Excursus: Change of Sentence Length -- Chapter Four: Consistency in Cicero's Style -- Traditions: Greek and Roman -- Cicero's Style in the Context of his Age: Cicero's and Caesar's Purism -- Widening the Range of Expression -- The Art of Artlessness: Consistency in Cicero's Style -- Influence: Some Glimpses -- Conclusion: Cicero and Literary Latin -- Chapter Five: Style and Context in the Orations: Selected Analytic Studies -- Preliminary Remarks -- Prooemium I: The De Marcello: Epideictic, Political, and Discourse -- Prooemium II: The Pro Rege Deiotaro: Rhetorical Theory and Oratorical Practice -- Narratio versus Prooemium: The Pro Milone: Levels of Style -- Digressio versus Prooemium: The Pro Archia: The Relevance of an Excursus -- Peroratio: The Verrine Orations: Cicero and the Gods of Sicily -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The De Oratore: Cicero and the Culture of Speech -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.