De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
'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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