De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Atque id primum in
poetis cerni licet, quibus est proxima cognatio cum oratoribus:
quam sunt inter sese Ennius, Pacuvius Acciusque
dissimiles, quam apud Graecos Aeschylus, Sophocles,
Euripides, quamquam omnibus par paene laus in dissimili
scribendi genere tribuitur!
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Aspicite nunc eos homines
atque intuemini, quorum de facultate quaerimus quid intersit
inter oratorum studia atque naturas: suavitatem
Isocrates, subtilitatem Lysias, acumen Hyperides, sonitum
Aeschines, vim Demosthenes habuit. Quis eorum non
egregius? tamen quis cuiusquam nisi sui similis? Gravitatem
Africanus, lenitatem Laelius, asperitatem Galba, profluens
quiddam habuit Carbo et canorum. Quis horum
non princeps temporibus illis fuit? et suo tamen quisque
in genere princeps.
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