Assertion: cicero's study | /r/CapableOf | go into decline
Facets:
value: for several centuries
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: After the breakup of the western Roman Empire, the study of rhetoric continued to be central to the study of the verbal arts; but the study of the verbal arts went into decline for several centuries, followed eventually by a gradual rise in formal education, culminating in the rise of medieval universities.