De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
Iam misericordia movetur, si is, qui audit, adduci potest ut illa, quae de altero deplorentur, ad suas res revocet, quas aut tulerit acerbas aut timeat, ut intuens alium crebro ad se ipsum revertatur; et cum singuli casus humanarum miseriarum graviter accipiuntur, si dicuntur dolenter, tum adflicta et prostrata virtus maxime luctuosa est.
Et ut illa altera pars orationis, quae probitatis commendatione boni viri debet speciem tueri, lenis, ut saepe iam dixi, atque summissa, sic haec, quae suscipitur ab oratore ad commutandos animos atque omni ratione flectendos, intenta ac vehemens esse debet.
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Sed est quaedam in his duobus generibus, quorum alterum lene, alterum vehemens esse volumus, difficilis ad distinguendum similitudo; nam et ex illa lenitate, qua conciliamur eis, qui audiunt, ad hanc vim acerrimam, qua eosdem excitamus, influat oportet aliquid, et ex hac vi non numquam animi aliquid inflandum est illi lenitati; neque est ulla temperatior oratio quam illa, in qua asperitas contentionis oratoris ipsius humanitate conditur, remissio autem lenitatis quadam gravitate et contentione firmatur.
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