De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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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