# Orator 52

Cicero, Orator, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi040.perseus-lat2. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/orator/52

quod quidem ego, Brute, ex tuis litteris sentiebam, non te id sciscitari, qualem ego in inveniendo et in conlocando summum esse oratorem vellem, sed id mihi quaerere videbare, quod genus ipsius orationis optimum iudicarem: rem difficilem, di immortales, atque omnium difficillimam. Nam cum est oratio mollis et tenera et ita flexibilis ut sequatur quocumque torqueas, tum et naturae variae et voluntates multum inter se distantia effecerunt genera dicendi:

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Cicero, Orator, 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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit/blob/master/data/phi0474/phi040/phi0474.phi040.perseus-lat2.xml.