De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Cuius responso iudices sic exarserunt, ut capitis hominem
innocentissimum condemnarent; qui quidem si absolutus
esset, quod me hercule, etiam si nihil ad nos pertinet, tamen
propter eius ingeni magnitudinem vellem, quonam modo
istos philosophos ferre possemus, qui nunc, cum ille damnatus
est nullam aliam ob culpam nisi propter dicendi inscientiam,
tamen a se oportere dicunt peti praecepta dicendi?
Quibuscum ego non pugno, utrum sit melius aut verius:
tantum dico et aliud illud esse atque hoc et hoc sine illo
summum esse posse.
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Nam quod ius civile, Crasse, tam vehementer amplexus
es, video quid egeris; tum, cum dicebas, videbam; primum
Scaevolae te dedisti, quem omnes amare meritissimo pro
eius eximia suavitate debemus; cuius artem cum indotatam
esse et incomptam videres, verborum eam dote locupletasti
et ornasti; deinde quod in ea tu plus operae laborisque
consumpseras, cum eius studi tibi et hortator et magister
esset domi, veritus es, nisi istam artem oratione exaggerasses,
ne operam perdidisses.
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