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an tu, inquit, id laboras,
si huic1 modo Bruto probaturus es? Plane, inquam, Attice,
disputationem hanc de oratore probando aut improbando2
multo malim tibi et Bruto placere, eloquentiam autem
meam populo probari velim. Etenim necesse est, qui ita
dicat, ut a multitudine probetur, eundem doctis probari.
Nam quid in dicendo rectum sit aut pravum ego iudicabo,
si modo is sum qui id possim aut sciam iudicare; qualis
vero sit orator ex eo quod3 is dicendo efficiet poterit intellegi.
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