De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
tum illum mihi respondere memini, cetera in te summe esse laudanda, illud vero improbi esse hominis et perfidiosi, dicere quod alienum esset et noceret ei, pro quo quisque diceret; qua re non sibi eum disertum, qui id non faceret, videri, sed improbum, qui faceret. Nunc, si tibi videtur, Antoni, demonstres velim, qua re tu hoc ita magnum putes nihil in causa mali facere, ut nihil tibi in oratore maius esse videatur.'
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'Dicam equidem, Caesar,' inquit 'quid intellegam, sed et tu et vos hoc omnes,' inquit, 'mementote, non me de perfecti oratoris divinitate quadam loqui, sed de exercitationis et consuetudinis meae mediocritate. Crassi quidem responsum excellentis cuiusdam est ingeni ac singularis; cui quidem portenti simile esse visum est posse aliquem inveniri oratorem, qui aliquid mali faceret dicendo obessetque ei, quem defenderet;
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