De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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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