De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Atque in hoc genere
illa quoque est infinita silva, quod oratori plerique, ut etiam
Crassus ostendit, duo genera ad dicendum dederunt: unum
de certa definitaque causa, quales sunt, quae in litibus,
quae in deliberationibus versantur, addat, si quis volet,
etiam laudationes; alterum, quod appellant omnes fere
scriptores, explicat nemo, infinitam generis sine tempore et
sine persona quaestionem. Hoc quid et quantum sit, cum
dicunt, intellegere mihi non videntur:
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si enim est oratoris,
quaecumque res infinite posita sit, de ea posse dicere,
dicendum erit ei, quanta sit solis magnitudo, quae forma
terrae; de mathematicis, de musicis rebus non poterit quin
dicat hoc onere suscepto recusare; denique ei, qui profitetur
esse suum non solum de eis controversiis, quae temporibus
et personis notatae sunt, hoc est, de omnibus forensibus,
sed etiam de generum infinitis quaestionibus dicere, nullum
potest esse genus orationis, quod sit exceptum.
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