De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Atque hic illud videndum est, in quo summus est
error istorum magistrorum, ad quos liberos nostros mittimus,
non quo hoc quidem ad dicendum magno opere pertineat,
sed tamen ut videatis, quale sit genus hoc eorum, qui sibi
eruditi videntur. Hebes atque impolitum: constituunt enim
in partiendis orationum modis duo genera causarum: unum
appellant, in quo sine personis atque temporibus de universo
genere quaeratur; alterum, quod personis certis et temporibus
definiatur; ignari omnis controversias ad universi
generis vim et naturam referri;
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nam in ea ipsa causa, de qua
ante dixi, nihil pertinet ad oratoris locos Opimi persona,
nihil Deci; de ipso enim universo genere infinita
quaestio est, num poena videatur esse adficiendus, qui
civem ex senatus consulto patriae conservandae causa
interemerit, cum id per leges non liceret; nulla denique
est causa, in qua id, quod in iudicium venit, reorum personis
ac non generum ipsorum universa dubitatione quaeratur.
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