De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Genus igitur dicendi est eligendum,
quod maxime teneat eos, qui audiant, et quod non solum
delectet, sed etiam sine satietate delectet; non enim a me
iam exspectari puto, ut moneam, ut caveatis, ne exilis, ne
inculta sit vestra oratio, ne vulgaris, ne obsoleta; aliud
quiddam maius et ingenia me hortantur vestra et aetates.
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Difficile enim dictu est, quaenam causa sit, cur ea, quae
maxime sensus nostros impellunt voluptate et specie prima
acerrime commovent, ab eis celerrime fastidio quodam et
satietate abalienemur. Quanto colorum pulcritudine et
varietate floridiora sunt in picturis novis pleraque quam
in veteribus! Quae tamen, etiam si primo aspectu nos
ceperunt, diutius non delectant; cum eidem nos in antiquis
tabulis illo ipso horrido obsoletoque teneamur. Quanto
molliores sunt et delicatiores in cantu flexiones et falsae
voculae quam certae et severae! Quibus tamen non modo
austeri, sed, si saepius fiunt, multitudo ipsa reclamat.
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