De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Hic nos igitur Stoicus iste nihil adiuvat, quoniam, quem ad
modum inveniam quid dicam, non docet; atque idem
etiam impedit, quod et multa reperit, quae negat ullo modo
posse dissolvi, et genus sermonis adfert non liquidum, non
fusum ac profluens, sed exile, aridum, concisum ac minutum,
quod si qui probabit, ita probabit, ut oratori tamen
aptum non esse fateatur; haec enim nostra oratio multitudinis
est auribus accommodanda, ad oblectandos animos,
ad impellendos, ad ea probanda, quae non aurificis statera,
sed populari quadam trutina examinantur;
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qua re istam
artem totam dimittimus, quae in excogitandis argumentis
muta nimium est, in iudicandis nimium loquax. Critolaum
istum, quem cum Diogene venisse commemoras, puto plus
huic nostro studio prodesse potuisse; erat enim ab isto
Aristotele, a cuius inventis tibi ego videor non longe aberrare.
Atque inter hunc Aristotelem, cuius et illum legi
librum, in quo exposuit dicendi artis omnium superiorum,
et illos, in quibus ipse sua quaedam de eadem arte dixit, et
hos germanos huius artis magistros hoc mihi visum est
interesse, quod ille eadem acie mentis, qua rerum omnium
vim naturamque viderat, haec quoque aspexit, quae ad
dicendi artem, quam ille despiciebat, pertinebant; illi
autem, qui hoc solum colendum ducebant, habitarunt in
hac una ratione tractanda non eadem prudentia qua ille,
sed usu in hoc uno genere studioque maiore.
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