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ac si1 tibi nemo responsurus esset, tamen ipsam causam,
ut ego arbitror, demonstrare non posses: nunc ne illud2
quidem cogitas, tibi cum homine disertissimo et ad dicendum
paratissimo futurum esse certamen, quicum modo
disserendum, modo omni ratione pugnandum certandumque
sit. cuius ego ingenium ita laudo ut non pertimescam, ita
probo ut me3 ab eo delectari facilius quam decipi putem
posse.
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tvlli Ciceronis Orationes: Divinatio in Q. Caecilivm. In C. Verrem Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gvlielmvs Peterson Rector Vniversitatis MacGillianae. William Peterson. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1917. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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