De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Huic respondebat non se negare Demosthenem
summam prudentiam summamque vim habuisse dicendi,
sed sive ille hoc ingenio potuisset sive, id quod constaret,
Platonis studiosus audiendi fuisset, non quid ille potuisset,
sed quid isti docerent esse quaerendum.
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Saepe etiam in
eam partem ferebatur oratione, ut omnino disputaret nullam
artem esse dicendi; idque cum argumentis docuerat, quod
ita nati essemus, ut et blandiri eis subtiliter, a quibus esset
petendum, et adversarios minaciter terrere possemus et rem
gestam exponere et id, quod intenderemus, confirmare et,
quod contra diceretur, refellere, ad extremum deprecari
aliquid et conqueri, quibus in rebus omnis oratorum versaretur
facultas; et quod consuetudo exercitatioque intellegendi
prudentiam acueret atque eloquendi celeritatem
incitaret;
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