De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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'Iam
istuc, quantum tibi ego reliquerim,' inquit Antonius 'erit
in tua potestate; si enim vere agere volueris, omnia tibi
relinquo; sin dissimulare, tu quem ad modum his satis
facias, videris. Sed, ut ad rem redeam, non sum tanto
ego' inquit 'ingenio, quanto Themistocles fuit, ut oblivionis
artem quam memoriae malim; gratiamque habeo Simonidi
illi Cio, quem primum ferunt artem memoriae protulisse.
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Dicunt enim, cum cenaret Crannone in Thessalia Simonides
apud Scopam fortunatum hominem et nobilem cecinissetque
id carmen, quod in eum scripsisset, in quo multa
ornandi causa poetarum more in Castorem scripta et Pollucem
fuissent, nimis illum sordide Simonidi dixisse se dimidium
eius ei, quod pactus esset, pro illo carmine daturum;
reliquum a suis Tyndaridis, quos aeque laudasset, peteret,
si ei videretur.
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