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