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intellegi licet quam frequens fuerit Platonis auditor;—nec
[p. 2006]
vero sine philosophorum disciplina genus et speciem cuiusque
rei cernere neque earn definiendo explicare nec tribuere
in partis possumus nec iudicare quae vera quae falsa sint
neque cernere consequentia, repugnantia videre, ambigua
distinguere. Quid dicam1 de natura rerum, cuius cognitio
magnam orationi2 suppeditat copiam, de vita3, de officiis, de
virtute, de moribus? satisne4 sine multa earum ipsarum
rerum disciplina aut dici aut intellegi. 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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