# On Oratory 1.119

Cicero, On Oratory, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi037.perseus-lat2, Book 1. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/on-oratory/1.119

Est igitur oratori diligenter providendum, non uti eis satis faciat, quibus necesse est, sed ut eis admirabilis esse videatur, quibus libere liceat iudicare; ac, si quaeritis, plane quid sentiam enuntiabo apud homines familiarissimos, quod adhuc semper tacui et tacendum putavi: mihi etiam qui optime dicunt quique id facillime atque ornatissime facere possunt, tamen, nisi timide ad dicendum accedunt et in ordienda oratione perturbantur, paene impudentes videntur,—tametsi id accidere non potest;

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Cicero, On Oratory, ed. Augustus Samuel Wilkins. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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