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De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Quid
multa? Sic mihi tum persuadere videbatur neque artificium
ullum esse dicendi neque quemquam posse, nisi qui illa,
quae a doctissimis hominibus in philosophia dicerentur,
cognosset, aut callide aut copiose dicere; in quibus Charmadas
solebat ingenium tuum, Crasse, vehementer admirari:
me sibi perfacilem in audiendo, te perpugnacem in disputando
esse visum.
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Itaque ego hac eadem opinione adductus
scripsi etiam illud quodam in libello, qui me imprudente et
invito excidit et pervenit in manus hominum, disertos
cognosse me non nullos, eloquentem adhuc neminem, quod
eum statuebam disertum, qui posset satis acute atque
dilucide apud mediocris homines ex communi quadam
opinione hominum dicere, eloquentem vero, qui mirabilius
et magnificentius augere posset atque ornare quae vellet,
omnisque omnium rerum, quae ad dicendum pertinerent,
fontis animo ac memoria contineret. Id si est difficile
nobis, quod ante, quam ad discendum ingressi sumus,
obruimur ambitione et foro, sit tamen in re positum atque
natura:
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