De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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ego enim, quantum auguror coniectura quantaque
ingenia in nostris hominibus esse video, non despero fore
aliquem aliquando, qui et studio acriore quam nos sumus
atque fuimus et otio ac facultate discendi maiore ac maturiore
et labore atque industria superiore, cum se ad
audiendum legendum scribendumque dederit, exsistat talis
orator, qualem quaerimus, qui iure non solum disertus, sed
etiam eloquens dici possit; qui tamen mea sententia aut
hic est iam Crassus aut, si quis pari fuerit ingenio pluraque
quam hic et audierit et lectitarit et scripserit, paulum huic
aliquid poterit addere.'
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Hoc loco Sulpicius 'insperanti' inquit 'mihi et Cottae,
sed valde optanti utrique nostrum cecidit, ut in istum
sermonem, Crasse, delaberemini; nobis enim huc venientibus
satis iucundum fore videbatur, si, cum vos de rebus
aliis loqueremini, tamen nos aliquid ex sermone vestro
memoria dignum excipere possemus; ut vero penitus in
eam ipsam totius huius vel studi vel artifici vel facultatis
disputationem paene intimam veniretis, vix optandum nobis
videbatur.
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