De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Quo quidem magis
dubito tibine plus laudis an Graecis vituperationis statuam
esse tribuendum: cum tu in alia lingua ac moribus natus
occupatissima in civitate vel privatorum negotiis paene
omnibus vel orbis terrae procuratione ac summi imperi
gubernatione destrictus tantam vim rerum cognitionemque
comprehenderis eamque omnem cum eius, qui consilio et
oratione in civitate valeat, scientia atque exercitatione
sociaris; illi nati in litteris ardentesque his studiis, otio
vero diffluentes, non modo nihil acquisierint, sed ne
relictum quidem et traditum et suum conservarint.'
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Tum
Crassus 'non in hac' inquit 'una, Catule, re, sed in aliis
etiam compluribus distributione partium ac separatione
magnitudines sunt artium deminutae. An tu existimas,
cum esset Hippocrates ille Cous, fuisse tum alios medicos,
qui morbis, alios, qui vulneribus, alios, qui oculis mederentur?
Num geometriam Euclide aut Archimede, num
musicam Damone aut Aristoxeno, num ipsas litteras
Aristophane aut Callimacho tractante tam discerptas
fuisse, ut nemo genus universum complecteretur atque ut
alius aliam sibi partem in qua elaboraret seponeret?
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