De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Itaque hoc, quod vulgo
de oratoribus ab imperitis dici solet "bonis hic verbis," aut
"aliquis non bonis utitur," non arte aliqua perpenditur, sed
quodam quasi naturali sensu iudicatur: in quo non magna
laus est vitare vitium, quamquam est magnum, verum
tamen hoc quasi solum quoddam atque fundamentum est,
verborum usus et copia bonorum.
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Sed quid ipse aedificet
orator et in quo adiungat artem, id esse nobis quaerendum
atque explicandum videtur. Tria sunt igitur in verbo
simplici, quae orator adferat ad inlustrandam atque exornandam
orationem: aut inusitatum verbum aut novatum
aut translatum.
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