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'Ut igitur de ipso genere
sum confessus,' inquit Antonius 'artem esse non maximam,
sic illud adfirmo, praecepta posse quaedam dari peracuta ad
pertractandos animos hominum et ad excipiendas eorum
voluntates. Huius rei scientiam si quis volet magnam
quandam artem esse dicere, non repugnabo; etenim cum
plerique temere ac nulla ratione causas in foro dicant, non
nulli autem propter exercitationem aut propter consuetudinem
aliquam callidius id faciant, non est dubium quin, si
quis animadverterit, quid sit, qua re alii melius quam alii
dicant, id possit notare: ergo id qui toto in genere fecerit,
is si non plane artem, at quasi artem quandam invenerit.
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