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