De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Senectuti vero celebrandae et ornandae quod honestius potest
esse perfugium quam iuris interpretatio? Equidem mihi
hoc subsidium iam inde ab adulescentia comparavi, non
solum ad causarum usum forensem, sed etiam ad decus
atque ornamentum senectutis, ut, cum me vires, quod fere
iam tempus adventat, deficere coepissent, ista ab solitudine
domum meam vindicarem. Quid est enim praeclarius
quam honoribus et rei publicae muneribus perfunctum
senem posse suo iure dicere idem, quod apud Ennium dicat
ille Pythius Apollo, se esse eum, unde sibi, si non populi et
reges, at omnes sui cives consilium expetant,
summarum rerum incerti: quos ego ope mea
†ex incertis certos compotesque consili
dimitto, ut ne res temere tractent turbidas:
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est enim sine dubio domus iuris consulti totius oraculum
civitatis; testis est huiusce Q. Muci ianua et vestibulum,
quod in eius infirmissima valetudine adfectaque iam aetate
maxima cotidie frequentia civium ac summorum hominum
splendore celebratur.
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