Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance

Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Key Words
Introduction: On the Language of Social Performance
I: Libertino Patre Natus: The Birth of Language of Social Performance
II: Grauitate Mixtus Lepos: The Ideologies of the Language of Social Performance
III: DE SVO FECERVNT: The Language of Social Performance in the Latin Rhetorical Tradition
IV: Suauis Grauis: The Birth of the Language of Rhetoric
V. Non ut Vincula Virorum: The Language of Social Performance in Cicero's Speeches
VI: Sermo Facetus et Nulla in Re Rudis: The Language of Social Performance in Cicero's de Oratore
VII: Leporum Disertus Puer: The Language of Social Performance in Catullus
VIII: O Omnia!: Remarks on the Subsequent History of the Language of Social Performance
Works Cited
Index Rerum et Nominum
Index Verborum
Index Locorum