De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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si ego omnem vim oratoris in argumentis et in re ipsa per
se comprobanda posuissem, tempus esset iam de ordine
argumentorum et de conlocatione rerum aliquid dicere;
sed cum tria sint a me proposita, de uno dictum, cum de
duobus reliquis dixero, tum erit denique de disponenda tota
oratione quaerendum.
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Valet igitur multum ad vincendum probari mores et instituta
et facta et vitam eorum, qui agent causas, et eorum,
pro quibus, et item improbari adversariorum, animosque
eorum, apud quos agetur, conciliari quam maxime ad benevolentiam
cum erga oratorem tum erga illum, pro quo dicet
orator. Conciliantur autem animi dignitate hominis, rebus
gestis, existimatione vitae; quae facilius ornari possunt, si
modo sunt, quam fingi, si nulla sunt. Sed haec adiuvant
in oratore: lenitas vocis, vultus pudoris significatio, verborum
comitas; si quid persequare acrius, ut invitus et
coactus facere videare. Facilitatis, liberalitatis, mansuetudinis,
pietatis, grati animi, non appetentis, non avidi signa
proferre perutile est; eaque omnia, quae proborum, demissorum,
non acrium, non pertinacium, non litigiosorum, non
acerborum sunt, valde benevolentiam conciliant abalienantque
ab eis, in quibus haec non sunt; itaque eadem sunt in
adversarios ex contrario conferenda.
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