De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Neque vero istis tragoediis tuis, quibus uti philosophi
maxime solent, Crasse, perturbor, quod ita dixisti, neminem
posse eorum mentis, qui audirent, aut inflammare dicendo
aut inflammatas restinguere, cum eo maxime vis oratoris
magnitudoque cernatur, nisi qui rerum omnium naturam et
mores hominum atque rationes penitus perspexerit, in quo
philosophia sit oratori necessario percipienda; quo in studio
hominum quoque ingeniosissimorum otiosissimorumque
totas aetates videmus esse contritas. Quorum ego copiam
magnitudinemque cognitionis atque artis non modo non
contemno, sed etiam vehementer admiror; nobis tamen, qui
in hoc populo foroque versamur, satis est ea de motibus
animorum et scire et dicere quae non abhorrent ab hominum
moribus.
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Quis enim umquam orator magnus et gravis, cum
iratum adversario iudicem facere vellet, haesitavit ob eam
causam, quod nesciret, quid esset iracundia, fervorne mentis
an cupiditas puniendi doloris? Quis, cum ceteros animorum
motus aut iudicibus aut populo dicendo miscere atque agitare
vellet, ea dixit, quae a philosophis dici solent? qui partim
omnino motus negant in animis ullos esse debere, quique
eos in iudicum mentibus concitent, scelus eos nefarium
facere; partim, qui tolerabiliores volunt esse et ad veritatem
vitae propius accedere, permediocris ac potius levis motus
debere esse dicunt.
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