De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Equidem hoc saepe audivi: cum
aedilitatem P. Crassus peteret eumque maior natu et iam
consularis Ser. Galba adsectaretur, quod Crassi filiam Gaio
filio suo despondisset, accessisse ad Crassum consulendi
causa quendam rusticanum, qui cum Crassum seduxisset
atque ad eum rettulisset responsumque ab eo verum magis
quam ad suam rem accommodatum abstulisset, ut eum
tristem Galba vidit, nomine appellavit quaesivitque, qua de
re ad Crassum rettulisset; ex quo ut audivit commotumque
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ut vidit hominem, "suspenso" inquit "animo et occupato
Crassum tibi respondisse video," deinde ipsum Crassum
manu prehendit et "heus tu," inquit "quid tibi in mentem
venit ita respondere?" Tum ille fidenter homo peritissimus
confirmare ita se rem habere, ut respondisset, nec dubium
esse posse; Galba autem adludens varie et copiose multas
similitudines adferre multaque pro aequitate contra ius
dicere; atque illum, cum disserendo par esse non posset—
quamquam fuit Crassus in numero disertorum, sed par
Galbae nullo modo—ad auctores confugisse et id, quod
ipse diceret, et in P. Muci fratris sui libris et in Sex. Aeli
commentariis scriptum protulisse ac tamen concessisse
Galbae disputationem sibi probabilem et prope veram videri.
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