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quaesitum a paucissimis et de instrumento est.
instrumentum voco, sine quo formari materia in id
quod velimus effici opus non possit. verum hoc ego
non artem credo egere sed artifice. neque enim
scientia desiderat instrumentum, quae potest esse
consummata, etiamsi nihil faciat, sed ille artifex,
ut caelator caelum et pictor penicilla. itaque
haec in eum locum, quo de oratore dicturi sumus,
differamus.
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