De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Sed, ut eo
revocetur, unde huc declinavit oratio, ex tribus istis clarissimis
philosophis, quos Romam venisse dixisti, videsne
Diogenem eum fuisse, qui diceret artem se tradere bene
disserendi et vera ac falsa diiudicandi, quam verbo Graeco
διαλεκτικήν appellaret? In hac arte, si modo est haec ars,
nullum est praeceptum, quo modo verum inveniatur, sed
tantum est, quo modo iudicetur;
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nam et omne, quod
eloquimur sic, ut id aut esse dicamus aut non esse, et, si
simpliciter dictum sit, suscipiunt dialectici, ut iudicent,
verumne sit an falsum, et, si coniuncte sit elatum et
adiuncta sint alia, iudicant, rectene adiuncta sint et verane
summa sit unius cuiusque rationis, et ad extremum ipsi se
compungunt suis acuminibus et multa quaerendo reperiunt
non modo ea, quae iam non possint ipsi dissolvere, sed
etiam quibus ante exorsa et potius detexta prope retexantur.
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