De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Qua re, Caesar, ego quoque hoc a te peto, ut, si tibi videtur,
disputes de hoc toto iocandi genere quid sentias, ne qua
forte dicendi pars, quoniam ita voluistis, in hoc tali coetu
atque in tam accurato sermone praeterita esse videatur.'
'Ego vero,' inquit ille 'quoniam conlectam a conviva, Crasse,
exigis, non committam ut, si defugerim, tibi causam aliquam
recusandi dem. Quamquam soleo saepe mirari eorum impudentiam,
qui agunt in scaena gestum inspectante Roscio;
quis enim sese commovere potest, cuius ille vitia non videat?
Sic ego nunc, Crasso audiente, primum loquar de facetiis
et docebo sus, ut aiunt, oratorem eum, quem cum Catulus
nuper audisset, faenum alios aiebat esse oportere.'
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Tum
ille 'iocabatur' inquit 'Catulus, praesertim cum ita dicat
ipse, ut ambrosia alendus esse videatur. Verum te, Caesar,
audiamus, ut Antoni reliqua videamus.' Et Antonius 'perpauca
quidem mihi restant,' inquit 'sed tamen defessus iam
labore atque itinere disputationis meae requiescam in Caesaris
sermone quasi in aliquo peropportuno deversorio.'
'Atqui' inquit Iulius 'non nimis liberale hospitium meum
dices; nam te in viam, simul ac perpaulum gustaris, extrudam
et eiciam.
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