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et si virtutes sunt, ad quas nobis etiam ante
quam doceremur initia quaedam ac semina sunt
concessa natura, ut ad iustitiam, cuius rusticis quoque ac barbaris apparet aliqua imago, nos certe sic
esse ab initio formatos, ut possemus orare pro nobis,
etiamsi non perfecte, tamen ut inessent quaedam (ut
dixi) semina eius facultatis, manifestum est.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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