De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Qui cum inter se, ut ipsorum usus ferebat,
amicissime consalutassent: 'quid vos tandem?' Crassus
'num quidnam' inquit 'novi?' 'Nihil sane,' inquit Catulus
'etenim vides esse ludos; sed—vel tu nos ineptos licet'
inquit 'vel molestos putes—cum ad me in Tusculanum'
inquit 'heri vesperi venisset Caesar de Tusculano suo, dixit
mihi a se Scaevolam hinc euntem esse conventum, ex quo
mira quaedam se audisse dicebat; te, quem ego totiens
omni ratione temptans ad disputandum elicere non potuissem,
permulta de eloquentia cum Antonio disseruisse et
tamquam in schola prope ad Graecorum consuetudinem
disputasse:
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ita me frater exoravit ne ipsum quidem a studio
audiendi nimis abhorrentem, sed me hercule verentem, ne
molesti vobis interveniremus, ut huc secum venirem; etenim
Scaevolam ita dicere aiebat, bonam partem sermonis
in hunc diem esse dilatam. Hoc tu si cupidius factum
existimas, Caesari attribues; si familiarius, utrique nostrum;
nos quidem, nisi forte molesti intervenimus, venisse
delectat.'
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