De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Hanc vim si quis existimat aut ab eis, qui de dicendi ratione
scripserunt, expositam esse aut a me posse exponi tam
brevi, vehementer errat neque solum inscientiam meam sed
ne rerum quidem magnitudinem perspicit: equidem vobis,
quoniam ita voluistis, fontis, unde hauriretis, atque itinera
ipsa ita putavi esse demonstranda, non ut ipse dux essem,
quod et infinitum est et non necessarium, sed ut commonstrarem
tantum viam et, ut fieri solet, digitum ad fontis
intenderem.'
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'Mihi vero' inquit Mucius 'satis superque abs te videtur
istorum studiis, si modo sunt studiosi, esse factum; nam, ut
Socratem illum solitum aiunt dicere perfectum sibi opus
esse, si qui satis esset concitatus cohortatione sua ad studium
cognoscendae percipiendaeque virtutis; quibus enim id
persuasum esset, ut nihil mallent esse se, quam bonos viros,
eis reliquam facilem esse doctrinam; sic ego intellego, si in
haec, quae patefecit oratione sua Crassus, intrare volueritis,
facillime vos ad ea, quae cupitis, perventuros, ab hoc aditu
ianuaque patefacta.'
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