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nam et infantes actionis
dignitate eloquentiae saepe fructum tulerunt et diserti deformitate
agendi multi infantes putati sunt; ut iam1 non
sine causa Demosthenes tribuerit et primas et secundas et
tertias actioni; si enim eloquentia nulla sine hac, haec
autem sine eloquentia tanta est, certe plurimum in dicendo
potest. Volet igitur ille qui eloquentiae principatum petet
et contenta voce atrociter dicere et summissa leniter et
inclinata videri gravis et inflexa2 miserabilis;
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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