De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Tum ille
'immo vero,' inquit 'Sulpici, rogemus Antonium, qui et
potest facere, quod requiris, et consuevit, ut te audio dicere:
nam me quidem fateor semper a genere hoc toto sermonis
refugisse et tibi cupienti atque instanti saepissime negasse,
ut tute paulo ante dixisti; quod ego non superbia neque
inhumanitate faciebam neque quod tuo studio rectissimo
atque optimo non obsequi vellem, praesertim cum te unum
ex omnibus ad dicendum maxime natum aptumque cognossem,
sed me hercule istius disputationis insolentia atque
earum rerum, quae quasi in arte traduntur, inscitia.'
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Tum
Cotta 'quoniam id, quod difficillimum nobis videbatur, ut
omnino de his rebus, Crasse, loquerere, adsecuti sumus, de
reliquo iam nostra culpa fuerit, si te, nisi omnia, quae
percontati erimus, explicaris, dimiserimus.'
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