# On Oratory 1.131

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/on-oratory/1.131

Num tu igitur inquit Sulpicius me aut hunc Cottam ius civile aut rem militarem iubes discere? Nam quis ad ista summa atque in omni genere perfecta potest pervenire? Tum ille ego vero, inquit quod in vobis egregiam quandam ac praeclaram indolem ad dicendum esse cognovi, idcirco haec exposui omnia; nec magis ad eos deterrendos, qui non possent, quam ad vos, qui possetis, exacuendos accommodavi orationem meam; et quamquam in utroque vestrum summum esse ingenium studiumque perspexi, tamen haec, quae sunt in specie posita, de quibus plura fortasse dixi, quam solent Graeci dicere, in te, Sulpici, divina sunt;

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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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