De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
Neque vero ego hoc tantum oneris imponam nostris praesertim oratoribus in hac tanta occupatione urbis ac vitae, nihil ut eis putem licere nescire, quamquam vis oratoris professioque ipsa bene dicendi hoc suscipere ac polliceri videtur, ut omni de re, quaecumque sit proposita, ornate ab eo copioseque dicatur.
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Sed quia non dubito quin hoc plerisque immensum infinitumque videatur, et quod Graecos homines non solum ingenio et doctrina, sed etiam otio studioque abundantis partitionem iam quandam artium fecisse video neque in universo genere singulos elaborasse, sed seposuisse a ceteris dictionibus eam partem dicendi, quae in forensibus disceptationibus iudiciorum aut deliberationum versaretur, et id unum genus oratori reliquisse; non complectar in his libris amplius, quam quod huic generi re quaesita et multum disputata summorum hominum prope consensu est tributum;
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