# On Oratory 2.91

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/on-oratory/2.91

Nihil est facilius, quam amictum imitari alicuius aut statum aut motum; si vero etiam vitiosi aliquid est, id sumere et in eo vitio similem esse non magnum est, ut ille, qui nunc etiam, amissa voce, furit in re publica, Fufius, nervos in dicendo C. Fimbriae, quos tamen habuit ille, non adsequitur, oris pravitatem et verborum latitudinem imitatur; sed tamen ille nec deligere scivit, cuius potissimum similis esset, et in eo ipso, quem delegerat, imitari etiam vitia voluit;

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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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