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quo
magis tuum, Brute, iudicium probo, qui eorum [id est ex
vetere Academia1] philosophorum sectam secutus es, quorum
in doctrina atque praeceptis disserendi ratio coniungitur
cum suavitate dicendi et copia; quamquam ea ipsa Peripateticorum Academicorumque consuetudo in ratione2 dicendi3
talis est ut nec perficere oratorem possit ipsa per sese nec
sine ea orator esse perfectus. Nam ut Stoicorum astrictior
est oratio aliquantoque contractior quam aures populi requirunt, sic illorum liberior et latior quam patitur consuetudo iudiciorum et fori. Quis enim uberior in dicendo
Platone?
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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