De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Quod si ea probarentur in
populis atque in civitatibus, quis tibi, Crasse, concessisset,
clarissimo viro et amplissimo et principi civitatis, ut illa
diceres in maxima contione tuorum civium, quae dixisti?
"Eripite nos ex miseriis, eripite ex faucibus eorum, quorum
crudelitas nisi nostro sanguine non potest expleri; nolite
sinere nos cuiquam servire, nisi vobis universis, quibus et
possumus et debemus." Omitto miserias, in quibus, ut illi
aiunt, vir fortis esse non potest; omitto faucis, ex quibus te
eripi vis, ne iudicio iniquo exsorbeatur sanguis tuus, quod
sapienti negant accidere posse: servire vero non modo te,
sed universum senatum, cuius tum causam agebas, ausus es
dicere?
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Potestne virtus, Crasse, servire istis auctoribus,
quorum tu praecepta oratoris facultate complecteris? Quae
et semper et sola libera est, quaeque, etiam si corpora capta
sint armis aut constricta vinculis, tamen suum ius atque
omnium rerum impunitam libertatem tenere debeat. Quae
vero addidisti, non modo senatum servire posse populo, sed
etiam debere, quis hoc philosophus tam mollis, tam languidus,
tam enervatus, tam omnia ad voluptatem corporis
doloremque referens probare posset, senatum servire populo,
cui populus ipse moderandi et regendi sui potestatem quasi
quasdam habenas tradidisset?
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