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