De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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hoc videre in reliquis sensibus, unguentis minus diu nos
delectari summa et acerrima suavitate conditis quam his
moderatis, et magis laudari quod terram quam quod crocum
olere videatur; in ipso tactu esse modum et mollitudinis
et levitatis. Quin etiam gustatus, qui est sensus
ex omnibus maxime voluptarius quique dulcitudine praeter
ceteros sensus commovetur, quam cito id, quod valde dulce
est, aspernatur ac respuit! Quis potione uti aut cibo dulci
diutius potest? cum utroque in genere ea, quae leviter
sensum voluptate moveant, facillime fugiant satietatem.
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Sic omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum
est; quo hoc minus in oratione miremur in qua vel
ex poetis vel oratoribus possumus iudicare concinnam, distinctam,
ornatam, festivam, sine intermissione, sine reprehensione,
sine varietate, quamvis claris sit coloribus picta
vel poesis vel oratio, non posse in delectatione esse diuturna.
Atque eo citius in oratoris aut in poetae cincinnis ac fuco
offenditur, quod sensus in nimia voluptate natura, non
mente satiantur; in scriptis et in dictis non aurium solum,
sed animi iudicio etiam magis infucata vitia noscuntur.
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