De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Nam et odor urbanitatis et mollitudo humanitatis et murmur maris et dulcitudo orationis sunt ducta a ceteris sensibus; illa vero oculorum multo acriora, quae paene ponunt in conspectu animi, quae cernere et videre non possumus. Nihil est enim in rerum natura, cuius nos non in aliis rebus possimus uti vocabulo et nomine. Unde enim simile duci potest, potest autem ex omnibus, indidem verbum unum, quod similitudinem continet, translatum lumen adferet orationi.
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Quo in genere primum est fugienda dissimilitudo: "caeli ingentes fornices"; quamvis sphaeram in scaenam, ut dicitur, attulerit Ennius, tamen in sphaera fornicis similitudo inesse non potest.
Vive, Ulixes; dum licet:
oculis postremum lumen radiatum rape!
non dixit "pete" non "cape,"—haberet enim moram sperantis diutius esse victurum—sed "rape": est hoc verbum ad id
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