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De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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aptatum, quod ante dixerat, "dum licet." Deinde videndum
est ne longe simile sit ductum: "Syrtim" patrimoni, "scopulum"
libentius dixerim; "Charybdim" bonorum, "voraginem"
potius; facilius enim ad ea, quae visa, quam ad illa, quae
audita sunt, mentis oculi feruntur; et quoniam haec vel
summa laus est in verbis transferendis, ut sensum feriat id,
quod translatum sit, fugienda est omnis turpitudo earum
rerum, ad quas eorum animos, qui audient, trahet similitudo.
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Nolo dici morte Africani "castratam" esse rem publicam,
nolo "stercus curiae" dici Glauciam; quamvis sit simile,
tamen est in utroque deformis cogitatio similitudinis; nolo
esse aut maius, quam res postulet: "tempestas comissationis";
aut minus: "comissatio tempestatis"; nolo esse
verbum angustius id, quod translatum sit, quam fuisset
illud proprium ac suum:
quidnam est, obsecro? Quid te adirier abnutas?
melius esset vetas, prohibes, absterres; quoniam ille dixerat:
ilico istic,
ne contagio mea bonis umbrave obsit ...
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