De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
In verbis etiam illa sunt, quae aut ex immutata oratione ducuntur aut ex unius verbi translatione aut ex inversione verborum. Ex immutatione, ut olim Rusca cum legem ferret annalem, dissuasor M. Servilius "dic mihi," inquit "M. Pinari, num, si contra te dixero, mihi male dicturus es, ut ceteris fecisti?" "Ut sementem feceris, ita metes" inquit.
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Ex translatione autem, ut, cum Scipio ille maior Corinthiis statuam pollicentibus eo loco, ubi aliorum essent imperatorum, turmalis dixit displicere. Invertuntur autem verba, ut, Crassus apud M. Perpernam iudicem pro Aculeone cum diceret, aderat contra Aculeonem Gratidiano L. Aelius Lamia, deformis, ut nostis; qui cum interpellaret odiose, "audiamus" inquit "pulchellum puerum" Crassus; cum esset arrisum, "non potui mihi" inquit Lamia "formam ipse fingere, ingenium potui"; tum hic "audiamus" inquit "disertum": multo etiam arrisum est vehementius. Sunt etiam illa venusta ut in gravibus sententiis, sic in facetiis— dixi enim dudum rationem aliam esse ioci, aliam severitatis,
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