De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
Tum Crassus 'quorsum igitur haec spectat' inquit 'tam longa et tam alte repetita oratio? Hae duae partes, quae mihi supersunt, inlustrandae orationis ac totius eloquentiae cumulandae, quarum altera dici postulat ornate, altera apte, hanc habent vim, ut sit quam maxime iucunda, quam maxime in sensus eorum, qui audiunt, influat et quam plurimis sit rebus instructa;
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instrumentum autem hoc forense, litigiosum, acre, tractum ex vulgi opinionibus exiguum saneque mendicum est; illud rursus ipsum, quod tradunt isti, qui profitentur se dicendi magistros, non multum est maius quam illud vulgare ac forense: apparatu nobis opus est et rebus exquisitis, undique conlectis, arcessitis, comportatis, ut tibi, Caesar, faciendum est ad annum; ut ego in aedilitate laboravi, quod cotidianis et vernaculis rebus satis facere me posse huic populo non putabam.
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