De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Vere mihi hoc
videor esse dicturus, ex omnibus eis, qui in harum artium
liberalissimis studiis sint doctrinisque versati, minimam
copiam poetarum et oratorum egregiorum exstitisse: atque
in hoc ipso numero, in quo perraro exoritur aliquis excellens,
si diligenter et ex nostrorum et ex Graecorum copia
comparare voles, multo tamen pauciores oratores quam
poetae boni reperientur.
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Quod hoc etiam mirabilius debet
videri, quia ceterarum artium studia fere reconditis atque
abditis e fontibus hauriuntur, dicendi autem omnis ratio in
medio posita communi quodam in usu atque in hominum
ore et sermone versatur, ut in ceteris id maxime excellat,
quod longissime sit ab imperitorum intellegentia sensuque
disiunctum, in dicendo autem vitium vel maximum sit
a vulgari genere orationis atque a consuetudine communis
sensus abhorrere.
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