De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Atque etiam, si vereare, ne paulo durior translatio esse videatur, mollienda est praeposito saepe verbo; ut si olim, M. Catone mortuo, "pupillum" senatum quis relictum diceret, paulo durius; sin, "ut ita dicam, pupillum," aliquanto mitius: etenim verecunda debet esse translatio, ut deducta esse in alienum locum, non inrupisse, atque ut precario, non vi, venisse videatur.
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Modus autem nullus est florentior in singulis verbis neque qui plus luminis adferat orationi; nam illud, quod ex hoc genere profluit, non est in uno verbo translato, sed ex pluribus continuatis conectitur, ut aliud dicatur, aliud intellegendum sit:
neque me patiar
iterum ad unum scopulum ut olim classem Achivom offendere. atque illud,
erras, erras; nam exsultantem te et praefidentem tibi
repriment validae legum habenae atque imperi insistent iugo.
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