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sed multum
interest inter hoc dicendi genus et superiora. Qui in illo
subtili et acuto elaboravit ut callide arguteque diceret, nec
quicquam altius cogitavit1, hoc uno perfecto magnus orator
est, et si2 non maximus; minimeque in lubrico versabitur et,
si semel constiterit, numquam cadet. Medius ille autem,
quem modicum et temperatum voco, si modo suum illud
satis instruxerit, non extimescet3 ancipites dicendi incertosque
casus; etiam si quando minus succedet, ut saepe fit,
magnum tamen periculum non adibit: alte4 enim cadere
non potest.
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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