De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
Longum est enim nunc me explicare, qua ratione aut confirmare aut infirmare testis, tabulas, quaestiones oporteat. Haec sunt omnia ingeni vel mediocris, exercitationis autem maximae; artem quidem et praecepta dumtaxat hactenus requirunt, ut certis dicendi luminibus ornentur.
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Itemque illa, quae sunt alterius generis, quae tota ab oratore pariuntur, excogitationem non habent difficilem, explicationem magis inlustrem perpolitamque desiderant; itaque cum haec duo nobis quaerenda sint in causis, primum quid, deinde quo modo dicamus, alterum, quod totum arte tinctum videtur, tametsi artem requirit, tamen prudentiae est paene mediocris quid dicendum sit videre; alterum est, in quo oratoris vis illa divina virtusque cernitur, ea, quae dicenda sunt, ornate, copiose varieque dicere.
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