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