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Nunc sive qui volet, eum philosophum, qui copiam nobis
rerum orationisque tradat, per me appellet oratorem licet;
sive hunc oratorem, quem ego dico sapientiam iunctam
habere eloquentiae, philosophum appellare malet, non
impediam; dum modo hoc constet, neque infantiam eius,
qui rem norit, sed eam explicare dicendo non queat, neque
inscientiam illius, cui res non suppetat, verba non desint,
esse laudandam; quorum si alterum sit optandum, malim
equidem indisertam prudentiam quam stultitiam loquacem;
sin quaerimus quid unum excellat ex omnibus, docto oratori
palma danda est;
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