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Speeches don't include unintentional parts like "uh". And there was no recording of Caesar speaking.
Caesar also would shout one line at a time and wait for people to repeat it for the people father away. I'm sure it was awesome live, but an audio recording would sound very strange to a modern listener.
That's pretty cool, and it makes sense. I always wondered how people heard speakers back in the day. Thank you
A classical grammatical rule says: "A sentence must express a complete thought, be able to be written down, and speakable in one breath," which makes a hell of a lot more sense once you get the context of oration.
Interesting, because a lot of literature from 150 years ago breaks the hell out of that rule. Like authors were one upping each other to see how long they can get away with not using a period.
Yeah that's almost 2 millennia post-classical. Printing press had been around for 400 years at that point.
I went to a Bernie rally once and it was somewhat like that. Not with people repeating lines for the whole auditorium, of course, but lots of saying one line and then pause for applause.