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Excerpt from M. Tullii Ciceronis De Oratore Libri Tres
Neminem qui tres libros Cicer0nio, qui �unt de Oratore, accurate perlegerit, latero arbitror, quam multa etiam nunc, post Orellii operam in' his libris edcndis strenue�rcligioseque collocatam, restent vel manifesto vitiosa et corrupta vc] pnl chrn specie ulcus oceultantia; qua vitla quo magis Intent, eo magie sunt pr0trnbenda, ne ea, que librariorum et cor rectornm tum' antiquorum tum r'ecentiutn male scdulitatl delientnr, pro Ciceronianis vcnditentur, ne'v'e qua: simulata sanitate doctiores fefellernnt, minus peritam �uventutem, cui hi libri in soholis tradunlur, in frandeu'x lnducttrft. Harum autem cerruptelarum qui sit fono qua: si non medendi, itt certe indagandi ratio, t'um (lemum patchit, quum externum horum libb. Habitum ct quasi historram cognovcrimus; quod si non nog1cxissenf superiores editores, et si ad hanc nor mum emmdamli viam confdrmassent, multo melius dc hot: Cic0roniano opere aetnm font. Verum ante Muellerum nemo interpretam quidquam dc sirig'nlari bor'um libb. Fato suspicatus est. Muellbrus, qui 'in dismrtntione de M. T. Ci ceroaia libri: III da 0fatore etiam po�t criticorum curda non d�m satis castiga�'s Lipsia: a. 1811 edita multa bene obsor vavit, quorum post�a immemor fuit, in eadem comment. P. 12 sq. Codicem quondam Gerardo Landriano repertmn c0mmemorav�t, sed paucis tantum verbis tamquc obseurc, ut verum huius inventi rationem eum parum cognitum halmissc sati9'appareat. L\�e Orelline quidem in primo Opo'rum' Cic. Volumine quidquam de codioum conditione att�lit; sed in censura Oratorie a Meyero editi, quia exstat in lalmu Anna!: Vol. III. Fasc. 4. P. 84 sqq., dc illins libri diplomatica ra tione accurate disserdit, qamque ibi de elio Ciceronis libro disputata sunt, etiam ad bos libros pertinent.
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