De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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'Ego vero istos,'
inquit—'memini enim mihi narrare Mucium—non modo
oratoris nomine sed ne foro quidem dignos vix putarim.'
'Atqui non defuit illis patronis' inquit Crassus 'eloquentia
neque dicendi ratio aut copia, sed iuris civilis scientia: quod
alter plus lege agendo petebat, quam quantum lex in xii
tabulis permiserat, quod cum impetrasset, causa caderet;
alter iniquum putabat plus secum agi, quam quod erat in
actione; neque intellegebat, si ita esset actum, litem adversarium
perditurum.
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Quid? in his paucis diebus nonne
nobis in tribunali Q. Pompei praetoris urbani familiaris
nostri sedentibus homo ex numero disertorum postulabat,
ut illi, unde peteretur, vetus atque usitata exceptio daretur
cvivs pecvniae dies fvisset? quod petitoris causa comparatum
esse non intellegebat, ut, si ille infitiator probasset
iudici ante petitam esse pecuniam, quam esset coepta deberi,
petitor rursus cum peteret, ne exceptione excluderetur, qvod
ea res in ivdicivm ante venisset.
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