Where to begin. We open the first tutorial, The counterpart of dialectic, and read it through. Then we take The three species at difficulty I. Most sets are ten questions. At difficulty I each is worth ten points, and a clean run of ten is 100. The six offices, the paired debates, and Gorgias’s Helen are sets of six; the Christian orator is a set of eight. The count is shown as we go.

What to do in an exercise. We read the excerpt, and then we answer. A right answer gains points; a wrong answer loses some. Keys 1–4 choose a multiple-choice option; Enter submits. Where the original Latin or Greek can be displayed, the Show the Latin button shows it. Sources for all texts are given in place.

The special sections. Gorgias’s Helen is a tutorial and a figures set of its own (persuasion as a drug; the four aitiai). Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy is kept as forensic. Some key debates from Thucydides (Archidamus and Sthenelaidas, Cleon and Diodotus, Pericles, Catiline and Caesar) are paired below as well. The texts also include Augustine on the Christian orator and some passages from the Confessions.