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iam vero Origines eius quem florem aut quod lumen elo-
quentiae non habent ? Amatores huic desunt, sicuti multis
iam ante saeculis et Philisto Syracusio et ipsi Thucydidi.
Nam ut horum concisis sententiis, interdum etiam non satis
[autem1] apertis cum brevitate tum nimio acumine, officit2
Theopompus elatione atque altitudine orationis suae (quod
idem Lysiae Demosthenes3) sic Catonis luminibus obstruxit
haec posteriorum quasi exaggerata altius oratio.
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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