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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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Quis enim nescit maximam vim
exsistere oratoris in hominum mentibus vel ad iram aut ad
odium aut ad dolorem incitandis vel ab hisce eisdem
permotionibus ad lenitatem misericordiamque revocandis?
Quae nisi qui naturas hominum vimque omnem humanitatis
causasque eas, quibus mentes aut incitantur aut reflectuntur,
penitus perspexerit, dicendo quod volet perficere non poterit.
Atque totus hic locus philosophorum proprius videtur,
neque orator me auctore umquam repugnabit;
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sed, cum
illis cognitionem rerum concesserit, quod in ea solum illi
voluerint elaborare, tractationem orationis, quae sine illa
scientia est nulla, sibi adsumet; hoc enim est proprium
oratoris, quod saepe iam dixi, oratio gravis et ornata et
hominum sensibus ac mentibus accommodata.
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