De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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'Enimvero' inquit Crassus 'mirari satis
non queo etiam te haec, Scaevola, desiderare, quae neque
ego ita teneo, uti ei, qui docent, neque sunt eius generis,
ut, si optime tenerem, digna essent ista sapientia ac tuis
auribus.' 'Ain tu?' inquit ille: 'si de istis communibus et
pervagatis vix huic aetati audiendum putas, etiamne illa
neglegere possumus, quae tu oratori cognoscenda esse dixisti,
de naturis hominum, de moribus, de rationibus eis, quibus
hominum mentes et incitarentur et reprimerentur, de historia,
de antiquitate, de administratione rei publicae, denique de
nostro ipso iure civili? Hanc enim ego omnem scientiam
et copiam rerum in tua prudentia sciebam inesse; in oratoris
vero instrumento tam lautam supellectilem numquam
videram.'
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'Potes igitur,' inquit Crassus 'ut alia omittam
innumerabilia et immensa et ad ipsum tuum ius civile
veniam, oratores putare eos, quos multas horas exspectavit,
cum in campum properaret, et ridens et stomachans P. Scaevola,
cum Hypsaeus maxima voce, plurimis verbis a M. Crasso
praetore contenderet, ut ei, quem defendebat, causa cadere
liceret, Cn. autem Octavius, homo consularis, non minus
longa oratione recusaret, ne adversarius causa caderet ac ne
is, pro quo ipse diceret, turpi tutelae iudicio atque omni
molestia stultitia adversarii liberaretur?'
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