# On Oratory 2.137

Cicero, On Oratory, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi037.perseus-lat2, Book 2. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/on-oratory/2.137

Quae vero, cum de facto non ambigitur, quaeruntur, qualia sint, ea si ex reis numeres, et innumerabilia sunt et obscura; si ex rebus, valde et modica et inlustria; nam si Mancini causam in uno Mancino ponimus, quotienscumque is, quem pater patratus dediderit, receptus non erit, totiens causa nova nascetur; sin illa controversia causam facit, videaturne ei, quem pater patratus dediderit, si is non sit receptus, postliminium esse, nihil ad artem dicendi nec ad argumenta defensionis Mancini nomen pertinet;

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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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