De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Ita tria sunt omnino genera, quae in disceptationem et
controversiam cadere possint: quid fiat factum futurumve
sit, aut quale sit, aut quo modo nominetur; nam illud quidem,
quod quidam Graeci adiungunt, "rectene factum sit," totum
in eo est "quale sit." Sed iam ad institutum revertar meum.
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Cum igitur accepta causa et genere cognito rem tractare
coepi, nihil prius constituo, quam quid sit illud, quo mihi
sit referenda omnis illa oratio, quae sit propria quaestionis
et iudici; deinde illa duo diligentissime considero, quorum
alterum commendationem habet nostram aut eorum,
quos defendimus, alterum est accommodatum ad eorum
animos, apud quos dicimus, ad id, quod volumus, commovendos.
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