摘要：This paper made a comparison of cicero’s Rhetoric with Baumgarten’s Aesthetics,for answering the question of how Baumgarten built the system of ars aesthetica on the basis of cicero’s *** paper demonstrated how Baumgarten’s key ideas of pulchritudo and magnitudo were related with cicero’s decorum and modus ***’s magnitudo originated in cicero’s ***,however,differentiated the idea pulchritudo from the cicero’s decorum for approaching the issue of pulchritudo ipsa.