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