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And if this excellence was to be found in
no orator up to his own day, and not even in himself
or Lucius Crassus, we may regard it as certain that
the reason why they and their predecessors lacked
this gift was its extreme difficulty of acquisition.
Again, Cicero1 holds that, while invention and
arrangement are within the reach of any man of
good sense, eloquence belongs to the orator alone,
and consequently it was on the rules for the cultivation of eloquence that he expended the greatest
care.
1 Cic. Or. xiv. 44;
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