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tertius est ille amplus copiosus, gravis ornatus, in quo
profecto vis maxima est. Hic est enim, cuius ornatum
dicendi et copiam admiratae gentes eloquentiam in civitatibus plurimum1 valere
passae sunt, sed hanc eloquentiam,
quae cursu magno sonituque ferretur, quam suspicerent
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omnes2, quam admirarentur, quam se adsequi posse diffiderent. Huius
eloquentiae est tractare animos, huius omni
modo permovere. Haec modo perfringit, modo inrepit in
sensus; inserit novas opiniones, evellit insitas.
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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