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fuerunt et clari quidem auctores, quibus solum
videretur oratoris officium docere; namque et adfectus
duplici ratione excludendos putabant, primum quia
vitium esset omnis animi perturbatio, deinde quia
iudicem a veritate depelli misericordia gratia similibusque non oporteret, et voluptatem audientium
petere, cum vincendi tantum gratia diceretur, non
modo agenti supervacuum, sed vix etiam viro digium
arbitrabantur;
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