# On Oratory 1.233

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/on-oratory/1.233

Cuius responso iudices sic exarserunt, ut capitis hominem innocentissimum condemnarent; qui quidem si absolutus esset, quod me hercule, etiam si nihil ad nos pertinet, tamen propter eius ingeni magnitudinem vellem, quonam modo istos philosophos ferre possemus, qui nunc, cum ille damnatus est nullam aliam ob culpam nisi propter dicendi inscientiam, tamen a se oportere dicunt peti praecepta dicendi? Quibuscum ego non pugno, utrum sit melius aut verius: tantum dico et aliud illud esse atque hoc et hoc sine illo summum esse posse.

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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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