De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Quid ergo hoc fieri
turpius aut dici potest, quam eum, qui hanc personam susceperit,
ut amicorum controversias causasque tueatur, laborantibus
succurrat, aegris medeatur, adflictos excitet, hunc
in minimis tenuissimisque rebus ita labi, ut aliis miserandus,
aliis inridendus esse videatur?
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Equidem propinquum nostrum
P. Crassum illum Divitem cum multis aliis rebus
elegantem hominem et ornatum tum praecipue in hoc efferendum
et laudandum puto, quod, cum P. Scaevolae frater
esset, solitus est ei persaepe dicere neque illum in iure civili
satis illi arti facere posse, nisi dicendi copiam adsumpsisset
—quod quidem hic, qui mecum consul fuit, filius eius est
consecutus—neque se ante causas amicorum tractare atque
agere coepisse, quam ius civile didicisset.
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