De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Tum Crassus 'operarium nobis quendam,
Antoni, oratorem facis atque haud scio an aliter sentias et
utare tua illa mirifica ad refellendum consuetudine, qua tibi
nemo umquam praestitit; cuius quidem ipsius facultatis
exercitatio oratorum propria est, sed iam in philosophorum
consuetudine versatur maximeque eorum, qui de omni re
proposita in utramque partem solent copiosissime dicere.
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Verum ego non solum arbitrabar, his praesertim audientibus,
a me informari oportere, qualis esse posset is, qui habitaret
in subselliis neque quicquam amplius adferret, quam quod
causarum necessitas postularet, sed maius quiddam videbam,
cum censebam oratorem, praesertim in nostra re
publica, nullius ornamenti expertem esse oportere. Tu
autem, quoniam exiguis quibusdam finibus totum oratoris
munus circumdedisti, hoc facilius nobis expones ea, quae
abs te de officiis praeceptisque oratoris quaesita sunt; sed
opinor secundum hunc diem; satis enim multa a nobis
hodie dicta sunt.
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