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