De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Hoc loco ne qua sit admiratio, si tot tantarumque
rerum nulla a me praecepta ponentur, sic statuo: ut in
ceteris artibus, cum tradita sint cuiusque artis difficillima,
reliqua, quia aut faciliora aut similia sint, tradi non necesse
esse; ut in pictura, qui hominum unam speciem pingere
perdidicerit, posse eum cuiusvis vel formae vel aetatis,
etiam si non didicerit, pingere neque esse periculum, qui
leonem aut taurum pingat egregie, ne idem in multis aliis
quadrupedibus facere non possit—neque est omnino ars
ulla, in qua omnia, quae illa arte effici possint, a doctore
tradantur, sed qui primarum et certarum rerum genera ipsa
didicerunt, reliqua non incommode per se adsequentur—
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similiter arbitror in hac sive ratione sive exercitatione dicendi,
qui illam vim adeptus sit, ut eorum mentis, qui aut
de re publica aut de ipsius rebus aut de eis, contra quos aut
pro quibus dicat, cum aliqua statuendi potestate audiant, ad
suum arbitrium movere possit, illum de toto illo genere reliquarum
orationum non plus quaesiturum esse, quid dicat,
quam Polyclitum illum, cum Herculem fingebat, quem ad
modum pellem aut hydram fingeret, etiam si haec numquam
separatim facere didicisset.'
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