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'Minime mirum,' inquit Antonius 'si
ista res adhuc nostra lingua inlustrata non est; nemo enim
studet eloquentiae nostrorum hominum, nisi ut in causis
atque in foro eluceat; apud Graecos autem eloquentissimi
homines remoti a causis forensibus cum ad ceteras res
inlustris tum ad historiam scribendam maxime se applicaverunt:
namque et Herodotum illum, qui princeps genus
hoc ornavit, in causis nihil omnino versatum esse accepimus;
atqui tanta est eloquentia, ut me quidem, quantum ego
Graece scripta intellegere possum, magno opere delectet;
et post illum Thucydides omnis dicendi artificio mea sententia
facile vicit;
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