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[128] duo restant1 enim, quae bene tractata ab oratore admirabilem eloquentiam faciunt2. Quorum alterum est, quod Graeci ἠθικὸν vocant, ad naturas3 et ad mores et ad omnem vitae consuetudinem accommodatum; alterum, quod idem [p. 2040] παθητικὸν nominant, quo perturbantur animi et concitantur, in quo uno regnat oratio. Illud superius come iucundum, ad benevolentiam conciliandam paratum; hoc vehemens4 incensum incitatum, quo causae eripiuntur: quod cum rapide fertur, sustineri nullo pacto potest.

1 duo restant Schüts: duae res sunt enim A: duo sunt L tractatae A

2 faciunt Stephanus: faciant AL

3 naturam A

4 vehementius A

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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