# On Oratory 2.287

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/on-oratory/2.287

Saepe etiam salse, quae fieri non possunt, optantur; ut M. Lepidus, cum, ceteris se in campo exercentibus, ipse in herba recubuisset, vellem hoc esset, inquit laborare. Salsum est etiam quaerentibus et quasi percontantibus lente respondere quod nolint; ut censor Lepidus, cum M. Antistio Pyrgensi equum ademisset amicique vociferarentur et quaererent, quid ille patri suo responderet, cur ademptum sibi equum diceret, cum optimus colonus, parcissimus, modestissimus, frugalissimus esset, me istorum inquit nihil credere.

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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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