Ita non ingenio, sed memoria et recordatione opus est, ut quae a praestantissimis viris et excogitata subtiliter et dicta graviter accepi, cum singuli diversas sed easdem probabiles causas adferrent, dum formam sui quisque et animi et ingenii redderent, isdem nunc numeris isdemque rationibus persequar, servato  ordine disputationis.
So it is not intellectual ability that I require, but only power of memory, in order now to recount the sagacious thoughts and the weighty language which I heard from the lips of those eminent men, reproducing the same divisions and the same arguments. The explanations which they severally offered, though discrepant, had each something to recommend it, and in putting them forward the speaker reflected in every case his individual character. I shall adhere moreover to the order in which they actually argued.
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