De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Qua re ego tibi oratorem sic iam instituam, si
potuero, ut quid efficere possit ante perspiciam: sit enim mihi
tinctus litteris; audierit aliquid, legerit, ista ipsa praecepta
acceperit; temptabo quid deceat, quid voce, quid viribus,
quid spiritu, quid lingua efficere possit. Si intellegam posse
ad summos pervenire, non solum hortabor, ut elaboret, sed
etiam, si vir quoque bonus mihi videbitur esse, obsecrabo;
tantum ego in excellenti oratore et eodem bono viro pono
esse ornamenti universae civitati; sin videbitur, cum omnia
summe fecerit, tamen ad mediocris oratores esse venturus, permittam
ipsi quid velit; molestus magno opere non ero; sin
plane abhorrebit et erit absurdus, ut se contineat aut ad
aliud studium transferat, admonebo;
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nam neque is, qui optime
potest, deserendus ullo modo est a cohortatione nostra
neque is, qui aliquid potest, deterrendus: quod alterum
divinitatis mihi cuiusdam videtur, alterum, vel non facere
quod non optime possis, vel facere quod non pessime facias,
humanitatis, tertium vero illud, clamare contra quam deceat
et quam possit, hominis est, ut tu, Catule, de quodam
clamatore dixisti, stultitiae suae quam plurimos testis domestico
praeconio conligentis.
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