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Cicero
Brutus, or On Eminent Orators Passage 149
Passage 149 of 334
Canonical reference 149
Latin
perseus-cicero-brutus-lat
licet omnia hoc modo; sed vereor ne fingi videantur haec, ut dicantur a me quodam modo; res se tamen sic habet. Cum omnis virtus sit, ut vestra, Brute, vetus Academia dixit, mediocritas, uterque horum medium quiddam volebat sequi; sed ita cadebat ut alter ex alterius laude partem, uterque autem suam totam haberet.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Everything may be described in this way, but I fear that these things may seem invented so as to be expressed by me in a studied fashion. Yet the facts are so. Since every virtue is a mean, as your Old Academy, Brutus, maintained, each of these men wished to follow a middle course. But the result was that each acquired part of the other's merit while retaining the whole of his own.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
On pourrait poursuivre ainsi pour toutes leurs qualités; mais je crains que ces traits ne paraissent inventés et façonnés par moi pour les besoins de mon propos. La réalité est pourtant bien telle. Puisque toute vertu est une juste mesure, comme l’a enseigné votre ancienne Académie, Brutus, chacun d’eux voulait suivre une voie moyenne; mais il en résultait que l’un possédait une part du mérite de l’autre, tandis que chacun conservait intégralement le sien.
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