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De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Eo autem omni sermone confecto,
tantam in Crasso humanitatem fuisse, ut, cum lauti accubuissent,
tolleretur omnis illa superioris tristitia sermonis
eaque esset in homine iucunditas et tantus in loquendo
lepos, ut dies inter eos curiae fuisse videretur, convivium
Tusculani;
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postero autem die, cum illi maiores natu satis
quiessent et in ambulationem ventum esset, dicebat tum
Scaevolam duobus spatiis tribusve factis dixisse 'cur non
imitamur, Crasse, Socratem illum, qui est in Phaedro
Platonis? Nam me haec tua platanus admonuit, quae
non minus ad opacandum hunc locum patulis est diffusa
ramis, quam illa, cuius umbram secutus est Socrates, quae
mihi videtur non tam ipsa acula, quae describitur, quam
Platonis oratione crevisse, et quod ille durissimis pedibus
fecit, ut se abiceret in herba atque ita illa, quae philosophi
divinitus ferunt esse dicta, loqueretur, id meis pedibus certe
concedi est aequius.'
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