De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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ut noster Scaevola
Septumuleio illi Anagnino, cui pro C. Gracchi capite
erat aurum repensum, roganti, ut se in Asiam praefectum
duceret "quid tibi vis," inquit "insane? tanta malorum est
multitudo civium, ut tibi ego hoc confirmem, si Romae
manseris, te paucis annis ad maximas pecunias esse venturum."
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In hoc genere Fannius in annalibus suis Africanum
hunc Aemilianum dicit fuisse egregium et Graeco
eum verbo appellat εἴρωνα; sed, uti ei ferunt, qui melius
haec norunt, Socratem opinor in hac ironia dissimulantiaque
longe lepore et humanitate omnibus praestitisse. Genus
est perelegans et cum gravitate salsum cumque oratoriis
dictionibus tum urbanis sermonibus accommodatum.
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