De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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comprehenderit; sed primum id difficile est factu,
praesertim in hac nostra vita nostrisque occupationibus;
deinde illud etiam verendum est ne abstrahamur ab hac
exercitatione et consuetudine dicendi populari et forensi.
Aliud enim mihi quoddam orationis genus esse videtur
eorum hominum, de quibus paulo ante dixisti, quamvis illi
ornate et graviter aut de natura rerum aut de humanis rebus
loquantur: nitidum quoddam genus est verborum et laetum,
et palaestrae magis et olei, quam huius civilis turbae ac
fori.
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Namque egomet, qui sero ac leviter Graecas litteras
attigissem, tamen cum pro consule in Ciliciam proficiscens
venissem Athenas, compluris tum ibi dies sum propter
navigandi difficultatem commoratus; sed, cum cotidie
mecum haberem homines doctissimos, eos fere ipsos, qui
abs te modo sunt nominati, cum hoc nescio quo modo apud
eos increbruisset, me in causis maioribus sicuti te solere
versari, pro se quisque ut poterat de officio et de ratione
oratoris disputabat.
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