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nam1 Lysiam primo profiteri solitum artem esse
dicendi; deinde, quod Theodorus esset in arte subtilior,
in orationibus autem ieiunior, orationes eum scribere aliis
coepisse, artem removisse; similiter Isocratem primo2 artem
dicendi esse negavisse3, scribere autem aliis solitum orationes,
quibus in iudiciis uterentur; sed cum ex eo, quia quasi4
committeret contra legem 'quo quis5 iudicio circumveniretur,6' saepe ipse in iudicium vocaretur, orationes aliis destitisse scribere totumque se ad artes componendas transtulisse.
M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Rhetorica, Tomus II. A. S. Wilkins. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1911. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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