De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Hanc diligentiam subsequitur
modus etiam et forma verborum, quod iam vereor ne huic
Catulo videatur esse puerile; versus enim veteres illi in hac
soluta oratione propemodum, hoc est, numeros quosdam
nobis esse adhibendos putaverunt: interspirationis enim,
non defetigationis nostrae neque librariorum notis, sed
verborum et sententiarum modo interpunctas clausulas in
orationibus esse voluerunt; idque princeps Isocrates instituisse
fertur, ut inconditam antiquorum dicendi consuetudinem
delectationis atque aurium causa, quem ad
modum scribit discipulus eius Naucrates, numeris astringeret.
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Namque haec duo musici, qui erant quondam idem
poetae, machinati ad voluptatem sunt, versum atque cantum,
ut et verborum numero et vocum modo delectatione vincerent
aurium satietatem. Haec igitur duo, vocis dico
moderationem et verborum conclusionem, quoad orationis
severitas pati posset, a poetica ad eloquentiam traducenda
duxerunt.
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