De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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De hoc igitur, qui erit talis, ut
cohortandus adiuvandusque sit, ita loquamur, ut ei tradamus
ea dumtaxat, quae nos usus docuit, ut nobis ducibus veniat
eo, quo sine duce ipsi pervenimus, quoniam meliora docere
non possumus.
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Atque ut a familiari nostro exordiar, hunc
ego, Catule, Sulpicium primum in causa parvula adulescentulum
audivi voce et forma et motu corporis et reliquis
rebus aptis ad hoc munus, de quo quaerimus, oratione autem
celeri et concitata, quod erat ingeni, et verbis effervescentibus
et paulo nimium redundantibus, quod erat aetatis.
Non sum aspernatus; volo enim se efferat in adulescente
fecunditas; nam facilius sicut in vitibus revocantur ea,
quae se nimium profuderunt, quam, si nihil valet materies,
nova sarmenta cultura excitantur; item volo esse in adulescente,
unde aliquid amputem; non enim potest in eo sucus
esse diuturnus, quod nimis celeriter est maturitatem exsecutum.
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