De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
Haec autem, ut ex Appennino fluminum, sic ex communi sapientiae iugo sunt doctrinarum facta divortia, ut philosophi tamquam in superum mare Ionium defluerent Graecum quoddam et portuosum, oratores autem in inferum hoc, Tuscum et barbarum, scopulosum atque infestum laberentur, in quo etiam ipse Ulixes errasset.
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Qua re, si hac eloquentia atque hoc oratore contenti sumus, qui sciat aut negare oportere, quod arguare, aut, si id non possis, tum ostendere, quod is fecerit, qui insimuletur, aut recte factum aut alterius culpa aut iniuria aut ex lege aut non contra legem aut imprudentia aut necessario, aut non eo nomine usurpandum, quo arguatur, aut non ita agi, ut debuerit ac licuerit; et, si satis esse putatis ea, quae isti scriptores artis docent, discere, quae multo tamen ornatius, quam ab illis dicuntur, et uberius explicavit Antonius—sed, si his contenti estis atque eis etiam, quae dici voluistis a me, ex ingenti quodam oratorem immensoque campo in exiguum sane gyrum compellitis.
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