De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
Et, credo, in illa militis causa, si tu aut heredem aut militem defendisses, ad Hostilianas te actiones, non ad tuam vim et oratoriam facultatem contulisses: tu vero, vel si testamentum defenderes, sic ageres, ut omne omnium testamentorum ius in eo iudicio positum videretur, vel si causam ageres militis, patrem eius, ut soles, dicendo a mortuis excitasses; statuisses ante oculos; complexus esset filium flensque eum centum viris commendasset; lapides me hercule omnis flere ac lamentari coegisses, ut totum illud vti lingva nvn- cvpassit non in xii tabulis, quas tu omnibus bibliothecis anteponis, sed in magistri carmine scriptum videretur.
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Nam quod inertiam accusas adulescentium, qui istam artem primum facillimam non ediscant, quae quam sit facilis, illi viderint, qui eius artis adrogantia, quasi difficillima sit, ita subnixi ambulant, deinde etiam tu ipse videris, qui eam artem facilem esse dicis, quam concedis adhuc artem omnino non esse, sed aliquando, si quis aliam artem didicerit, ut hanc artem efficere possit, tum esse illam artem futuram; deinde, quod sit plena delectationis; in quo tibi remittunt omnes istam voluptatem et ea se carere patiuntur; nec quisquam est eorum, qui, si iam sit ediscendum sibi aliquid, non Teucrum Pacuvi malit quam Manilianas venalium vendendorum leges ediscere;
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