De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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'Quem tu mihi' inquit Mucius 'Staseam, quem Peripateticum narras? Gerendus est tibi mos adulescentibus, Crasse, qui non Graeci alicuius cotidianam loquacitatem sine usu neque ex scholis cantilenam requirunt, sed ex homine omnium sapientissimo atque eloquentissimo atque ex eo, qui non in libellis, sed in maximis causis et in hoc domicilio imperi et gloriae sit consilio linguaque princeps, cuius vestigia persequi cupiunt, eius sententiam sciscitantur.
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Equidem te cum in dicendo semper putavi deum, tum vero tibi numquam eloquentiae maiorem tribui laudem quam humanitatis; qua nunc te uti vel maxime decet neque defugere eam disputationem, ad quam te duo excellentes ingeniis adulescentes cupiunt accedere.'
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