De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
quod quidem in illa causa neque Sulpicius fecit neque ego facere conatus sum; nam quantum uterque nostrum potuit, omni copia dicendi dilatavit, quid esset maiestatem minuere: etenim definitio primum reprehenso verbo uno aut addito aut dempto saepe extorquetur e manibus; deinde genere ipso doctrinam redolet exercitationemque paene puerilem: tum et in sensum et in mentem iudicis intrare non potest, ante enim praeterlabitur, quam percepta est.
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Sed in eo genere, in quo quale sit quid, ambigitur, exsistit etiam ex scripti interpretatione saepe contentio, in quo nulla potest esse nisi ex ambiguo controversia; nam illud ipsum, quod scriptum a sententia discrepat, genus quoddam habet ambigui; quod tum explicatur, cum ea verba, quae desunt, suggesta sunt, quibus additis defenditur sententiam scripti perspicuam fuisse; ex contrariisque scriptis si quid ambigitur, non novum genus nascitur, sed superioris generis causa duplicatur; idque aut numquam diiudicari poterit aut ita diiudicabitur, ut referendis praeteritis verbis id scriptum, quodcumque defendemus, suppleatur; ita fit, ut unum genus in eis causis, quae propter scriptum ambiguntur, relinquatur, si est scriptum aliquid ambigue.
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