De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Habetis sermonem bene longum hominis, utinam non
impudentis! Illud quidem certe, non nimis verecundi; qui
quidem, cum te, Catule, tum etiam L. Crasso audiente, de
dicendi ratione tam multa dixerim; nam istorum aetas
minus me fortasse movere debuit. Sed mihi ignoscetis
profecto, si modo, quae causa me nunc ad hanc insolitam
mihi loquacitatem impulerit, acceperitis.'
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'Nos vero,'
inquit Catulus 'etenim pro me hoc et pro meo fratre respondeo,
non modo tibi ignoscimus, sed te diligimus
magnamque tibi habemus gratiam; et cum humanitatem et
facilitatem agnoscimus tuam, tum admiramur istam scientiam
et copiam. Equidem etiam hoc me adsecutum puto, quod
magno sum levatus errore et illa admiratione liberatus, quod
multis cum aliis semper admirari solebam, unde esset illa
tanta tua in causis divinitas; nec enim te ista attigisse arbitrabar,
quae diligentissime cognosse et undique conlegisse
usuque doctum partim correxisse video, partim comprobasse;
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