De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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'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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