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Equidem
cum audio socrum meam Laeliam—facilius enim
mulieres incorruptam antiquitatem conservant, quod multorum
sermonis expertes ea tenent semper, quae prima
didicerunt—sed eam sic audio, ut Plautum mihi aut Naevium
videar audire, sono ipso vocis ita recto et simplici est,
ut nihil ostentationis aut imitationis adferre videatur; ex
quo sic locutum esse eius patrem iudico, sic maiores; non
aspere ut ille, quem dixi, non vaste, non rustice, non hiulce,
sed presse et aequabiliter et leniter.
M. Tulli Ciceronis Rhetorica. M. Tullius Cicero. A. S. Wilkins. 1902.
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