%0 Article %A Roger D. Ray %I S.n. %D 1987 %C s.l. %T Bede and Cicero %X The evidence, of Bede's biblical commentaries in particular, suggests 1) that his attitude toward Roman rhetoric, like that of Augustine and Cicero, was ambivalent, 2) that his knowledge reached into the theory of invention, and 3) that he had acces to Cicero's De inventione.