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