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itaque M. Antonius, cui vel primas
eloquentiae patrum nostrorum tribuebat aetas, vir natura
peracutus et prudens1, in eo libro quem unum reliquit
disertos ait se vidisse multos, eloquentem omnino neminem.
Insidebat videlicet in eius mente species eloquentiae, quam
cernebat animo, re ipsa2 non videbat. Vir autem acerrimo
ingenio—sic enim fuit—multa et in se et in aliis desiderans
neminem plane qui recte appellari eloquens posset videbat;
quod si ille nec se nec L. Crassum eloquentem putavit,
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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