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De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Atque ego
hoc ex eis saepe audivi, cum dicerent pergratum Atheniensis
et sibi fecisse et multis principibus civitatis, quod, cum ad
senatum legatos de suis maximis rebus mitterent, tris illius
aetatis nobilissimos philosophos misissent, Carneadem et
Critolaum et Diogenem; itaque eos, dum Romae essent,
et a se et ab aliis frequenter auditos; quos tu cum haberes
auctores, Antoni, miror cur philosophiae sicut Zethus ille
Pacuvianus prope bellum indixeris.'
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'Minime,' inquit Antonius;
'ac sic decrevi philosophari potius, ut Neoptolemus
apud Ennium "paucis: nam omnino haud placet." Sed
tamen haec est mea sententia, quam videbar exposuisse:
ego ista studia non improbo, moderata modo sint: opinionem
istorum studiorum et suspicionem artifici apud eos,
qui res iudicent, oratori adversariam esse arbitror, imminuit
enim et oratoris auctoritatem et orationis fidem.
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