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[124] principia verecunda, nondum1 elatis incensa verbis, sed acuta sententiis vel ad offensionem adversarii vel ad commendationem sui. Narrationes credibiles nec historico2 sed prope cotidiano sermone explicatae dilucide. Dein si tenuis causa est3, tum4 etiam argumentandi tenue filum et in docendo et in refellendo, idque ita tenebitur, ut quanta ad rem tanta ad orationem fiat accessio.

1 nondum Al: non Lm

2 historicae A

3 si tenuis causa est, cod. Vict.: si tenuis causa erit Jahn: si tenues causae AL

4 tum L: om. A

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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