De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Duo enim aut tres fere sunt extremi
servandi et notandi pedes, si modo non breviora et praecisa
erunt superiora; quos aut chorios aut heroos aut alternos
esse oportebit aut in paeane illo posteriore, quem Aristoteles
probat, aut ei pari cretico. Horum vicissitudines efficient,
ut neque ei satientur, qui audient, fastidio similitudinis, nec
nos id, quod faciemus, opera dedita facere videamur.
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Quod si Antipater ille Sidonius, quem tu probe, Catule,
meministi, solitus est versus hexametros aliosque variis
modis atque numeris fundere ex tempore tantumque hominis
ingeniosi ac memoris valuit exercitatio, ut, cum se mente
ac voluntate coniecisset in versum, verba sequerentur;
quanto id facilius in oratione, exercitatione et consuetudine
adhibita, consequemur!
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