De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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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