De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Nam quod illud, Scaevola,
negasti te fuisse laturum, nisi in meo regno esses, quod in
omni genere sermonis, in omni parte humanitatis dixerim
oratorem perfectum esse debere: numquam me hercule hoc
dicerem, si eum, quem fingo, me ipsum esse arbitrarer.
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Sed, ut solebat C. Lucilius saepe dicere, homo tibi subiratus,
mihi propter eam ipsam causam minus quam volebat
familiaris, sed tamen et doctus et perurbanus, sic sentio
neminem esse in oratorum numero habendum, qui non sit
omnibus eis artibus, quae sunt libero dignae, perpolitus;
quibus ipsis si in dicendo non utimur, tamen apparet atque
exstat, utrum simus earum rudes an didicerimus: ut qui
pila ludunt, non utuntur in ipsa lusione artificio proprio
palaestrae, sed indicat ipse motus, didicerintne palaestram
an nesciant, et qui aliquid fingunt, etsi tum pictura nihil
utuntur, tamen, utrum sciant pingere an nesciant, non
obscurum est;
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