De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Sed ego ne cum ista quidem arte
pugno. Sit sane tanta quantam tu illam esse vis—etenim
sine controversia et magna est et late patet et ad multos
pertinet et summo in honore semper fuit et clarissimi cives
ei studio etiam hodie praesunt—sed vide, Crasse, ne dum
novo et alieno ornatu velis ornare iuris civilis scientiam, suo
quoque eam concesso et tradito spolies atque denudes.
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Nam, si ita diceres, qui iuris consultus esset, esse eum
oratorem, itemque qui esset orator, iuris eundem esse consultum,
praeclaras duas artis constitueres atque inter se paris
et eiusdem socias dignitatis. Nunc vero iuris consultum
sine hac eloquentia, de qua quaerimus, fateris esse posse,
fuisseque plurimos; oratorem negas, nisi illam scientiam
adsumpserit, esse posse. Ita est tibi iuris consultus ipse per
se nihil nisi leguleius quidam cautus et acutus, praeco
actionum, cantor formularum, auceps syllabarum; sed quia
saepe utitur orator subsidio iuris in causis, idcirco istam
iuris scientiam eloquentiae tamquam ancillulam pedisequamque
adiunxisti.
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