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