De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Hic Sulpicius 'me quidem'
inquit 'recte mones, idque mihi gratum est; sed ne
te quidem, Antoni, multum scriptitasse arbitror.' Tum ille
'quasi vero' inquit 'non ea praecipiam aliis, quae mihi ipsi
desint: sed tamen ne tabulas quidem conficere existimor:
verum et in hoc ex re familiari mea et in illo ex eo, quod
dico, quantulum id cumque est, quid faciam iudicari potest.
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Atque esse tamen multos videmus, qui neminem imitentur
et suapte natura, quod velint, sine cuiusquam similitudine
consequantur; quod et in vobis animadverti recte potest,
Caesar et Cotta; quorum alter inusitatum nostris quidem
oratoribus leporem quendam et salem, alter acutissimum et
subtilissimum dicendi genus est consecutus; neque vero
vester aequalis C. Curio, patre mea sententia vel eloquentissimo
temporibus illis, quemquam mihi magno opere videtur
imitari; qui tamen verborum gravitate et elegantia et
copia suam quandam expressit quasi formam figuramque
dicendi; quod ego maxime iudicare potui in ea causa, quam
ille contra me apud centumviros pro fratribus Cossis dixit;
in qua nihil illi defuit, quod non modo copiosus, sed etiam
sapiens orator habere deberet.
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