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ego enim Catonem tuum
ut civem, ut senatorem, ut imperatorem, ut virum denique
cum prudentia et diligentia tum omni virtute excellentem
probo; orationes autem eius ut illis temporibus valde
laudo—significant enim formam quandam ingeni, sed admodum impolitam et plane rudem—, Origines vero cum
omnibus oratoris1 laudibus refertas diceres et Catonem cum
Philisto et Thucydide comparares, Brutone te id censebas
an mihi probaturum? Quos enim ne e Graecis quidem
quisquam imitari potest, his tu comparas hominem Tusculanum nondum suspicantem quale esset copiose et ornate
dicere.
1 oratoris L: oratoriis Lambinus
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