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illa quaestio est maior, ex mediis artibus,
quae neque laudari per se nec vituperari possunt, sed
utiles aut secus secundum mores utentium fiunt,
habenda sit rhetorice, an sit, ut compluribus etiam
philosophorum placet, virtus.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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