De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Quid? de libertate, quo iudicium gravius
esse nullum potest, nonne ex iure civili potest esse contentio,
cum quaeritur, is, qui domini voluntate census sit,
continuone, an, ubi lustrum sit conditum, liber sit? Quid?
quod usu memoria patrum venit, ut paterfamilias, qui ex
Hispania Romam venisset, cum uxorem praegnantem in
provincia reliquisset, Romae alteram duxisset neque nuntium
priori remisisset, mortuusque esset intestato et ex utraque
filius natus esset, mediocrisne res in contentionem adducta
est, cum quaereretur de duobus civium capitibus et de
puero, qui ex posteriore natus erat, et de eius matre, quae,
si iudicaretur certis quibusdam verbis, non novis nuptiis
fieri cum superiore divortium, in concubinae locum duceretur?
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Haec igitur et horum similia iura suae civitatis
ignorantem erectum et celsum, alacri et prompto ore atque
vultu, huc atque illuc intuentem vagari cum magna caterva
toto foro, praesidium clientibus atque opem amicis et prope
cunctis civibus lucem ingeni et consili sui porrigentem atque
tendentem, nonne in primis flagitiosum putandum est?
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