De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Disputabant contra diserti
homines Athenienses et in re publica causisque versati, in
quis erat etiam is, qui nuper Romae fuit, Menedemus,
hospes meus; qui cum diceret esse quandam prudentiam,
quae versaretur in perspiciendis rationibus constituendarum
et regendarum rerum publicarum, excitabatur homo promptus
atque omni abundans doctrina et quadam incredibili
varietate rerum atque copia: omnis enim partis illius ipsius
prudentiae petendas esse a philosophia docebat neque ea,
quae statuerentur in re publica de dis immortalibus, de
disciplina iuventutis, de iustitia, de patientia, de temperantia,
de modo rerum omnium, ceteraque, sine quibus civitates
aut esse aut bene moratae esse non possent, usquam in
eorum inveniri libellis;
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quod si tantam vim rerum maximarum
arte sua rhetorici illi doctores complecterentur,
quaerebat, cur de prooemiis et de epilogis et de huius modi
nugis—sic enim appellabat—referti essent eorum libri, de
civitatibus instituendis, de scribendis legibus, de aequitate,
de iustitia, de fide, de frangendis cupiditatibus, de conformandis
hominum moribus littera nulla in eorum libris
inveniretur.
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