De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
Nam, quod addidisti tertium, vos esse eos, qui vitam insuavem sine his studiis putaretis, id me non modo non hortatur ad disputandum, sed etiam deterret. Nam ut C. Lucilius, homo doctus et perurbanus, dicere solebat ea, quae scriberet neque se ab indoctissimis neque a doctissimis legi velle, quod alteri nihil intellegerent, alteri plus fortasse quam ipse; de quo etiam scripsit "Persium non curo legere,"—hic fuit enim, ut noramus, omnium fere nostrorum hominum doctissimus—"Laelium Decumum volo," quem cognovimus virum bonum et non inlitteratum, sed nihil ad Persium; sic ego, si iam mihi disputandum sit de his nostris studiis, nolim equidem apud rusticos, sed multo minus apud vos; malo enim non intellegi orationem meam quam reprehendi.'
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Tum Caesar 'equidem,' inquit 'Catule, iam mihi videor navasse operam, quod huc venerim; nam haec ipsa recusatio disputationis disputatio quaedam fuit mihi quidem periucunda. Sed cur impedimus Antonium, cuius audio esse partis, ut de tota eloquentia disserat, quemque iam dudum et Cotta et Sulpicius exspectat?'
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