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