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