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videsne, ut ordine
verborum paululum commutato, isdem tamen verbis1 stante
sententia, ad nihilum omnia recidant, cum sint ex aptis
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dissoluta? Aut si alicuius inconditi arripias dissipatam
aliquam sententiam eamque ordine verborum paululum
commutato2 in quadrum redigas, efficiatur aptum illud, quod
fuerit3 antea diffluens ac solutum. Age sume de Gracchi
apud censores illud: Abesse non potest quin eiusdem
hominis sit probos improbare qui improbos probet; quanto
aptius, si ita dixisset: Quin eiusdem hominis sit qui improbos probet probos improbare!
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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