De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Ad consilium autem de re publica dandum
caput est nosse rem publicam; ad dicendum vero probabiliter
nosse mores civitatis, qui quia crebro mutantur, genus
quoque orationis est saepe mutandum; et quamquam una
fere vis est eloquentiae, tamen quia summa dignitas est
populi, gravissima causa rei publicae, maximi motus multitudinis,
genus quoque dicendi grandius quoddam et inlustrius
esse adhibendum videtur; maximaque pars orationis
admovenda est ad animorum motus non numquam aut
cohortatione aut commemoratione aliqua aut in spem aut
in metum aut ad cupiditatem aut ad gloriam concitandos,
saepe etiam a temeritate, iracundia, spe, iniuria, invidia,
crudelitate revocandos.
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Fit autem ut, quia maxima quasi
oratoris scaena videatur contionis esse, natura ipsa ad ornatius
dicendi genus excitemur; habet enim multitudo vim
quandam talem, ut, quem ad modum tibicen sine tibiis
canere, sic orator sine multitudine audiente eloquens esse
non possit.
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