De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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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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