De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Sed quod erant quidam eique multi,
qui aut in re publica propter ancipitem, quae non potest
esse seiuncta, faciendi dicendique sapientiam florerent, ut
Themistocles, ut Pericles, ut Theramenes, aut, qui minus
ipsi in re publica versarentur, sed huius tamen eiusdem
sapientiae doctores essent, ut Gorgias, Thrasymachus,
Isocrates, inventi sunt, qui, cum ipsi doctrina et ingeniis
abundarent, a re autem civili et a negotiis animi quodam
iudicio abhorrerent, hanc dicendi exercitationem exagitarent
atque contemnerent;
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quorum princeps Socrates fuit, is qui
omnium eruditorum testimonio totiusque iudicio Graeciae
cum prudentia et acumine et venustate et subtilitate tum
vero eloquentia, varietate, copia, quam se cumque in partem
dedisset omnium fuit facile princeps, eisque, qui haec, quae
nunc nos quaerimus, tractarent, agerent, docerent, cum
nomine appellarentur uno, quod omnis rerum optimarum
cognitio atque in eis exercitatio philosophia nominaretur,
hoc commune nomen eripuit sapienterque sentiendi et
ornate dicendi scientiam re cohaerentis disputationibus suis
separavit; cuius ingenium variosque sermones immortalitati
scriptis suis Plato tradidit, cum ipse litteram Socrates nullam
reliquisset.
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