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