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