De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
Qua re Coracem istum veterem patiamur nos quidem pullos suos excludere in nido, qui evolent clamatores odiosi ac molesti, Pamphilumque nescio quem sinamus in infulis tantam rem tamquam puerilis delicias aliquas depingere; nosque ipsi hac tam exigua disputatione hesterni et hodierni diei totum oratoris munus explicemus, dum modo illa res tanta sit, ut omnibus philosophorum libris, quos nemo oratorum istorum umquam attigit, comprehensa esse videatur.'
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Tum Catulus 'haudquaquam hercule' inquit 'Crasse, mirandum est esse in te tantam dicendi vel vim vel suavitatem vel copiam; quem quidem antea natura rebar ita dicere, ut mihi non solum orator summus, sed etiam sapientissimus homo viderere; nunc intellego illa te semper etiam potiora duxisse, quae ad sapientiam spectarent, atque ex his hanc dicendi copiam fluxisse. Sed tamen cum omnis gradus aetatis recordor tuae cumque vitam tuam ac studia considero, neque, quo tempore ista didiceris, video, nec magno opere te istis studiis, hominibus, libris intellego deditum. Neque tamen possum statuere, utrum magis mirer te illa, quae mihi persuades maxima esse adiumenta, potuisse in tantis tuis occupationibus perdiscere, an, si non potueris, posse isto modo dicere.'
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