De Optimo Genere Oratorum, Rhetorica Tomus II. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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itaque causa fuit Aeschini, cum ipse a Demo-
sthene esset capitis accusatus, quod legationem ementitus
esset, ut ulciscendi inimici causa nomine Ctesiphontis
iudicium fieret de factis famaque Demosthenis. Non enim
tam multa dixit
[*]dixit add. vulg.
de rationibus non relatis, quam de eo quod
civis improbus ut optimus laudatus esset.
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hanc multam
Aeschines a Ctesiphonte petivit quadriennio ante Philippi
Macedonis mortem; sed iudicium factum est aliquot annis
post Alexandro iam Asiam tenente; ad quod iudicium
concursus dicitur e tota Graecia factus esse. Quid enim
tam aut visendum aut audiendum fuit quam summorum
oratorum in gravissima causa accurata et inimicitiis incensa
contentio?
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quorum ego[*]ego vulg.: ergo GP
orationes si, ut[*]si ut vulg.:
sicut codd.
spero, ita expres-
sero virtutibus utens illorum omnibus, id est sententiis et
earum figuris et rerum ordine, verba persequens eatenus, ut
ea non abhorreant a more nostro—quae si e[*]e om. G
Graecis omnia
conversa non erunt, tamen ut generis eiusdem sint, elabora-
vimus[*]elaborabimus codd.: corr.
Hieronymus
—, erit regula, ad quam eorum dirigantur orationes
qui Attice volent dicere. Sed de nobis satis. Aliquando
enim Aeschinem ipsum Latine dicentem audiamus.
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