#mod Flavia is reading In Verrem in her Latin class this semester

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Why is it that when Cicero writes a sentence that goes on for two full pages with a main verb that doesn’t come until the penultimate section, he’s praised as ‘one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists’ but when I do the same thing it’s called ‘a run on sentence’ and I ‘need to use fewer dependent clauses’??