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