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[136] sed sententiarum ornamenta maiora sunt; quibus quia frequentissime Demosthenes utitur1, sunt qui putent2 idcirco eius eloquentiam maxime esse laudabilem. Et vero nullus fere ab eo locus sine quadam conformatione sententiae dicitur; nec quicquam est aliud dicere nisi3 omnis aut certe plerasque aliqua specie inluminare sententias: quas cum tu optime, Brute, teneas, quid attinet nominibus uti aut exemplis? tantum modo notetur locus.

1 utitur A: utatur L et codd. Quint. BM

2 putent A: putant L

3 nisi A Quint.: nisi quam aut L: nisi aut codd. dett.

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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