De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Omnes enim, sive artis
sunt loci sive ingeni cuiusdam ac prudentiae, qui modo
insunt in ea re, de qua scribimus, anquirentibus nobis omnique
acie ingeni contemplantibus ostendunt se et occurrunt;
omnesque sententiae verbaque omnia, quae sunt cuiusque
generis maxime inlustria, sub acumen stili subeant et succedant
necesse est; tum ipsa conlocatio conformatioque
verborum perficitur in scribendo, non poetico, sed quodam
oratorio numero et modo.
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Haec sunt, quae clamores et
admirationes in bonis oratoribus efficiunt; neque ea quisquam,
nisi diu multumque scriptitarit, etiam si vehementissime
se in his subitis dictionibus exercuerit, consequetur;
et qui a scribendi consuetudine ad dicendum venit, hanc
adfert facultatem, ut, etiam subito si dicat, tamen illa, quae
dicantur, similia scriptorum esse videantur; atque etiam, si
quando in dicendo scriptum attulerit aliquid, cum ab eo
discesserit, reliqua similis oratio consequetur;
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