De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Sed ut ad Graecos referam orationem,
quibus carere hoc quidem in sermonis genere non possumus
—nam ut virtutis a nostris, sic doctrinae sunt ab illis exempla
petenda—septem fuisse dicuntur uno tempore, qui
sapientes et haberentur et vocarentur: hi omnes praeter
Milesium Thalen civitatibus suis praefuerunt. Quis doctior
eisdem temporibus illis aut cuius eloquentia litteris instructior
fuisse traditur quam Pisistrati? qui primus Homeri
libros confusos antea sic disposuisse dicitur, ut nunc habemus.
Non fuit ille quidem civibus suis utilis, sed ita
eloquentia floruit, ut litteris doctrinaque praestaret.
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Quid
Pericles? de cuius vi dicendi sic accepimus, ut, cum contra
voluntatem Atheniensium loqueretur pro salute patriae
severius, tamen id ipsum, quod ille contra popularis homines
diceret, populare omnibus et iucundum videretur; cuius in
labris veteres comici, etiam cum illi male dicerent (quod
tum Athenis fieri licebat), leporem habitasse dixerunt tantamque
in eodem vim fuisse, ut in eorum mentibus, qui
audissent, quasi aculeos quosdam relinqueret. At hunc non
declamator aliqui ad clepsydram latrare docuerat, sed, ut
accepimus, Clazomenius ille Anaxagoras vir summus in
maximarum rerum scientia: itaque hic doctrina, consilio,
eloquentia excellens quadraginta annis praefuit Athenis et
urbanis eodem tempore et bellicis rebus.
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