nobis autem grandis audacia, si vel apud municipales et cathedrarios oratores aut forenses rabulas garriamus, qui etiam cum perorant, salva pace potiorum, turba numerosior illitteratissimis litteris vacant.
For me, on the other hand, it would be colossal effrontery to deliver my chatter even before provincial or academic orators or before the brawling pettifoggers of the forum, men who even when they actually plead in the courts (if I may say it without offence to the superior few), in most cases occupy themselves with a very unliterary kind of letters.
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