De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Ecce praesentes
duo prope aequales Sulpicius et Cotta. Quid tam
inter se dissimile? quid tam in suo genere praestans?
Limatus alter et subtilis, rem explicans propriis aptisque
verbis; haeret in causa semper et quid iudici probandum
sit cum acutissime vidit, omissis ceteris argumentis in eo
mentem orationemque defigit; Sulpicius autem fortissimo
quodam animi impetu, plenissima et maxima voce, summa
contentione corporis et dignitate motus, verborum quoque
ea gravitate et copia est, ut unus ad dicendum instructissimus
a natura esse videatur.
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Ad nosmet ipsos iam revertor,
quoniam sic fuimus semper comparati, ut hominum sermonibus
quasi in aliquod contentionis iudicium vocaremur.
Quid tam dissimile quam ego in dicendo et Antonius? cum
ille is sit orator, ut nihil eo possit esse praestantius, ego
autem, quamquam memet mei paenitet, cum hoc maxime
tamen in comparatione coniungar. Videtisne, genus hoc
quod sit Antoni? Forte, vehemens, commotum in agendo,
praemunitum et ex omni parte causae saeptum, acre, acutum,
enucleatum, in sua quaque re commorans, honeste cedens,
acriter insequens, terrens, supplicans, summa orationis varietate,
nulla nostrarum aurium satietate.
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