De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
Nec est dubium, quin exordium dicendi vehemens et pugnax non saepe esse debeat; sed si in ipso illo gladiatorio vitae certamine, quo ferro decernitur, tamen ante congressum multa fiunt, quae non ad vulnus, sed ad speciem valere videantur, quanto hoc magis in oratione est spectandum, in qua non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur! Nihil est denique in natura rerum omnium, quod se universum profundat et quod totum repente evolvat; sic omnia, quae fiunt quaeque aguntur acerrime, lenioribus principiis natura ipsa praetexuit.
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Haec autem in dicendo non extrinsecus alicunde quaerenda, sed ex ipsis visceribus causae sumenda sunt; idcirco tota causa pertemptata atque perspecta, locis omnibus inventis atque instructis considerandum est quo principio sit utendum.
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