De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Ecce autem, cum te nihil aliud profecisse
arbitrarer, nisi ut homines tibi civem improbum defendenti
ignoscendum propter necessitudinem arbitrarentur, serpere
occulte coepisti, nihil dum aliis suspicantibus, me vero iam
pertimescente, ut illam non Norbani seditionem, sed populi
Romani iracundiam neque eam iniustam, sed meritam ac
debitam fuisse defenderes. Deinde qui locus a te praetermissus
est in Caepionem? Ut tu illa omnia odio, invidia,
misericordia miscuisti! Neque haec solum in defensione,
sed etiam in Scauro ceterisque meis testibus, quorum testimonia
non refellendo, sed ad eundem impetum populi
confugiendo refutasti;
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quae cum abs te modo commemorarentur,
equidem nulla praecepta desiderabam; ipsam tamen
istam demonstrationem defensionum tuarum abs te ipso
commemoratam doctrinam esse non mediocrem puto.'
'Atqui, si ita placet,' inquit Antonius 'trademus etiam,
quae nos sequi in dicendo quaeque maxime spectare
solemus; docuit enim iam nos longa vita ususque rerum
maximarum, ut quibus rebus animi hominum moverentur
teneremus.
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