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[81] conlocata autem verba habent ornatum, si aliquid concinnitatis efficiunt, quod verbis mutatis non maneat manente sententia; nam sententiarum ornamenta quae permanent, etiam si verba mutaveris, sunt illa quidem permulta, sed quae emineant pauciora.

ergo ille tenuis orator, modo sit elegans, nec in faciendis [p. 2026] verbis erit audax et in transferendis verecundus et parcus et in priscis in reliquisque1 ornamentis et verborum et sententiarum demissior; ea2 translatione fortasse crebrior, qua frequentissime sermo omnis utitur non modo urbanorum, sed etiam rusticorum: si quidem est eorum gemmare vitis, sitire3 agros, laetas esse segetes, luxuriosa frumenta.

1 in reliquisque Reid: parcus in priscis edd. plurimi

2 ea add. Heerdegen

3 sitire F2 cum Quint. viii. 6. 6 et Non.: scire F1O1P1: lascivire MO2P2 d

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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