LINGVA LATINA PER SE ILUSTRTA

Hans Henning Ørberg

EXERCITIA LATINA II

CAPITVLVM LIII

Exercitium 5

1. Cicerō adulēscēns noctēs et diēs in omnium doctīnārum meditātiōnibus [< meditārī] versābātur, neque ūllus diēs ab exercitātiōnibus [< exercitāre] ōrātōriīs vacuus erat

2. Ōrātiōnēs commentābātur [= mente praeparābat] atque dēclāmitābat [= dēclāmābat] cum Latīnē tum Graecē, quia lingua Graeca plūra ōrnāmenta suppeditat [= offert].

3. Post ōrātiōnem prō S. Rōsciō, quae māximam commendātiōnem [< commendāre (= laudāre)] habuit, aliās multās ōrātiōnēs dīligenter ēlabōrātās [= labōre perfectās] atque ēlūcubrātās [= nocte ēlabōrātās] habuit.

4. Cum biennium [= duōs annōs] in causīs agendīs versātus esset, iam nōmen Cicerōnis in forō celebrātum [= celeber] erat.

5. Eō tempore Cicerōnī erat summa gracilitās [< gracilis] et īnfīrmitās [< īnfīrmus] corporis atque collum prōcērum [= altum et longum] et tenue.

6. Ea figūra [= fōrma] perīculum vītae afferre putātur, nisi quiēs labōrum datur.

7. Cicerō vērō omnia sine remissiōne [< remittere] et sine varietāte [< varius] dīcēbat vī summā vōcis et laterum magnā contentiōne [< contendere].

8. Sed suādentibus amīcīs et medicīs, cum intellegeret remissiōne et moderātiōne [< moderārī] vōcis opus esse, in Asiam profectus est, ut disceret temperātius [= moderātius] dīcere.

9. Rhodī Cicerō sē applicāvit [= sē adiūnxit] ad Molōnem, cum āctōrem [< agere] causārum, tum scrīptōrem praestantem [= excellentem].

10. Is Cicerōnem nimis redundantem [= abundantem] iuvenīlī dīcendī impūnitāte [< impūne] repressit [< re- + premere] et quasi extrā rīpās diffluentem [< dis + fluere] coercuit.

11. Bienniō post Cicerō Rōmam revertit commūtātus [= mūtātus], cum nimia contentiō vōcis resēdisset [= sēdātus esset] et ōrātiō quasi dēfervisset [= fervēre dēsiisset].

12. Ōrātōrēs duo tum excellēbant, alter remissus [< remittere] et lēnis [<> ācer], alter ōrnātus [< ōrnāre] et ācer.

13. Postquam Cicerō ūnum annum in Siciliā quaestūrā [= officiō quaestōris] fūnctus est, ēloquentia eius mātūritātem [< mātūrus] quandam habēre vidēbātur.

14. Cicerō, dēsignātus [: futūrus] aedīlis, in patrōciniō Siciliēnsī certāvit cum Hortēnsiō, dēsignātō cōnsule.

15. Cicerō autem nōn dēsistēbat omnī genere exercitātiōnis ac māximē stilō [= arte scrībendī] ingenium illud suum augēre, quicquid [= quidquid] et quantumcumque erat, ut ipse ait.

16. Animōs hominum ad sē convertit propter assiduitātem [< assiduus] et industriam in causīs agendīs et propter exquīsītum [= accūrātum] et minimē vulgāre [< vulgus] ōrātiōnis genus.

17. Post aedīlitātem Cicerō magnā populī voluntāte praetūram [< praetor] atque cōnsulātum adeptus est.

18. Huic sermōnī Cicerōnis prōpositum est [= cōnsilium est] ut labōrem et industriam eius perspiciāmus [= plānē videāmus].


Index Cap. 53 Ecercitium 4 Cap. 53 Exercitium 6