De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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in philosophos
vestros si quando incidi, deceptus indicibus librorum, qui
sunt fere inscripti de rebus notis et inlustribus, de virtute,
de iustitia, de honestate, de voluptate, verbum prorsus
nullum intellego; ita sunt angustis et concisis disputationibus
inligati; poetas omnino quasi alia quadam lingua locutos
non conor attingere. Cum eis me, ut dixi, oblecto, qui res
gestas aut orationes scripserunt suas aut qui ita loquuntur,
ut videantur voluisse esse nobis, qui non sumus eruditissimi,
familiares.
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Sed illuc redeo: videtisne, quantum munus sit
oratoris historia? Haud scio an flumine orationis et varietate
maximum; neque eam reperio usquam separatim instructam
rhetorum praeceptis; sita sunt enim ante oculos.
Nam quis nescit primam esse historiae legem, ne quid falsi
dicere audeat? Deinde ne quid veri non audeat? Ne
quae suspicio gratiae sit in scribendo? Ne quae simultatis?
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