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[3] quaeris igitur idque iam saepius quod eloquentiae genus probem maxime et quale mihi videatur illud, quo1 nihil addi possit, quod ego summum et perfectissimum iudicem. In quo vereor ne, si id quod vis effecero eumque oratorem quem quaeris expressero, tardem studia multorum, qui desperatione debilitati experiri id nolent2 quod se assequi posse diffidant3.

1 quo L: cui codd. dell.

2 nolent FPM: et Columella R. R. i. praef. 28: nollent O

3 diffidant FPO: diffident Columella

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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