De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Ac
sine dubio in omni re vincit imitationem veritas, sed ea si
satis in actione efficeret ipsa per sese, arte profecto non
egeremus; verum quia animi permotio, quae maxime aut
declaranda aut imitanda est actione, perturbata saepe ita est,
ut obscuretur ac paene obruatur, discutienda sunt ea, quae
obscurant, et ea, quae sunt eminentia et prompta, sumenda.
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Omnis enim motus animi suum quendam a natura habet
vultum et sonum et gestum; corpusque totum hominis et
eius omnis vultus omnesque voces, ut nervi in fidibus, ita
sonant, ut a motu animi quoque sunt pulsae. Nam voces
ut chordae sunt intentae, quae ad quemque tactum respondeant,
acuta gravis, cita tarda, magna parva; quas tamen
inter omnis est suo quoque in genere mediocris, atque
etiam illa sunt ab his delapsa plura genera, leve asperum,
contractum diffusum, continenti spiritu intermisso, fractum
scissum, flexo sono extenuatum inflatum;
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