Neque enim sapientem informamus neque Stoicorum comitem, sed eum qui quasdam artes haurire, omnes libare debet Ideoque et iuris civilis scientiam veteres oratores comprehendebant, et grammatica musica geometria imbuebantur.
It is not a professional philosopher that we are delineating, nor a hanger-on of the Stoics, but the man who, while he ought to drink deeply at certain springs of knowledge, should also wet his lips at them all. That is the reason why the orators of former days made a point of acquiring a knowledge of civil law, while they received a tincture also of literature, music, and mathematics.
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