De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Ac mea quidem sententia—frequens enim
te audivi atque adfui—multo maiorem partem sententiarum
sale tuo et lepore et politissimis facetiis pellexisti, cum et
illud nimium acumen inluderes et admirarere ingenium
Scaevolae qui excogitasset nasci prius oportere quam emori;
cumque multa conligeres et ex legibus et ex senatus consultis
et ex vita ac sermone communi non modo acute sed etiam
ridicule ac facete, ubi si verba, non rem sequeremur, confici
nihil posset: itaque hilaritatis plenum iudicium ac laetitiae
fuit; in quo quid tibi iuris civilis exercitatio profuerit, non
intellego; dicendi vis egregia, summa festivitate et venustate
coniuncta, profuit.
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Ipse ille Mucius paterni iuris defensor
et quasi patrimoni propugnator sui, quid in illa causa, cum
contra te diceret, attulit, quod de iure civili depromptum
videretur? Quam legem recitavit? Quid patefecit dicendo,
quod fuisset imperitis occultius? Nempe eius omnis oratio
versata est in eo, ut scriptum plurimum valere oportere
defenderet; at in hoc genere pueri apud magistros exercentur
omnes, cum in eius modi causis alias scriptum,
alias aequitatem defendere docentur.
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