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item in omni causa naturam aut victum aut
studium aut fortunam aut aliquid eorum, quae personis
adtributa sunt, ad eam causam, qua commotum pec-
casse dicet, adiungere atque ex dispari quoque genere
culparum, si ex pari sumendi facultas non erit, inpro-
bare animum adversarii oportebit: si avaritia inductum
arguas fecisse et avarum eum, quem accuses, demon-
strare non possis, aliis adfinem vitiis esse doceas, et
ex ea re non esse mirandum, qui in illa re turpis aut
cupidus aut petulans fuerit, hac quoque in re eum
deliquisse. quantum enim de honestate et auctoritate
eius, qui arguitur, detractum est, tantundem de facul-
Rhetorici libri duo qui vocantur de inventione. M. Tullius Cicero. Eduard Stroebel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1915. Keyboarding.
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