De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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In quo illud est vel maximum, quod versus in oratione si efficitur coniunctione verborum, vitium est, et tamen eam coniunctionem sicuti versum numerose cadere et quadrare et perfici volumus. Neque est ex multis res una, quae magis oratorem ab imperito dicendi ignaroque distinguat, quam quod ille rudis incondite fundit quantum potest et id, quod dicit, spiritu, non arte determinat, orator autem sic inligat sententiam verbis, ut eam numero quodam complectatur et astricto et soluto.
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Nam cum vinxit forma et modis, relaxat et liberat immutatione ordinis, ut verba neque adligata sint quasi certa aliqua lege versus neque ita soluta, ut vagentur. Quonam igitur modo tantum munus insistemus ut arbitremur nos hanc vim numerose dicendi consequi posse? Non est res tam difficilis quam necessaria; nihil est enim tam tenerum neque tam flexibile neque quod tam facile sequatur quocumque ducas quam oratio.
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