De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Sed profecto studia nihil prosunt perveniendi aliquo, nisi illud, quod eo, quo intendas, ferat deducatque, cognoris. Qua re quoniam mihi levius quoddam onus imponitis neque ex me de oratoris arte, sed de hac mea, quantulacumque est, facultate quaeritis, exponam vobis non quandam aut perreconditam aut valde difficilem aut magnificam aut gravem rationem consuetudinis meae, qua quondam solitus sum uti, cum mihi in isto studio versari adulescenti licebat.'
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Tum Sulpicius 'o diem, Cotta, nobis' inquit 'optatum! Quod enim neque precibus umquam nec insidiando nec speculando adsequi potui, ut, quid Crassus ageret meditandi aut dicendi causa, non modo videre mihi, sed ex eius scriptore et lectore Diphilo suspicari liceret, id spero nos esse adeptos omniaque iam ex ipso, quae diu cupimus, cognituros.'
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