De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Quin etiam, quae maxime propria
essent naturae, tamen his ipsis artem adhiberi videram;
nam de actione et de memoria quaedam brevia, sed magna
cum exercitatione praecepta gustaram. In his enim fere
rebus omnis istorum artificum doctrina versatur, quam ego
si nihil dicam adiuvare, mentiar; habet enim quaedam
quasi ad commonendum oratorem, quo quidque referat et
quo intuens ab eo, quodcumque sibi proposuerit, minus
aberret.
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Verum ego hanc vim intellego esse in praeceptis
omnibus, non ut ea secuti oratores eloquentiae laudem sint
adepti, sed, quae sua sponte homines eloquentes facerent,
ea quosdam observasse atque collegisse; sic esse non eloquentiam
ex artificio, sed artificium ex eloquentia natum;
quod tamen, ut ante dixi, non eicio; est enim, etiam si
minus necessarium ad bene dicendum, tamen ad cognoscendum
non inliberale;
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