De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
'Ego vero' inquit Antonius 'inveni iam, quem negaram in eo, quem scripsi, libello me invenisse eloquentem. Sed eo te ne laudandi quidem causa interpellavi, ne quid de hoc tam exiguo sermonis tui tempore verbo uno meo deminueretur.'
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'Hanc igitur' Crassus inquit 'ad legem cum exercitatione tum stilo, qui et alia et hoc maxime ornat ac limat, formanda nobis oratio est. Neque tamen hoc tanti laboris est, quanti videtur, nec sunt haec rhythmicorum aut musicorum acerrima norma dirigenda; efficiendum est illud modo nobis, ne fluat oratio, ne vagetur, ne insistat interius, ne excurrat longius, ut membris distinguatur, ut conversiones habeat absolutas. Neque semper utendum est perpetuitate et quasi conversione verborum, sed saepe carpenda membris minutioribus oratio est, quae tamen ipsa membra sunt numeris vincienda.
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