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