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erit igitur eloquens—hunc enim auctore Antonio quaerimus—is
qui in foro causisque civilibus ita dicet, ut probet,
ut delectet, ut flectat. Probare necessitatis est, delectare
suavitatis, flectere victoriae: nam id unum ex omnibus
ad obtinendas causas potest plurimum. Sed quot officia
oratoris1, tot sunt genera dicendi: subtile in probando,
modicum in delectando, vehemens in flectendo; in quo
uno vis omnis oratoris est.
1 oratoris Iul. Victor: orationis L
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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