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sed et illi
priores errant et Ephorus in culpa est. Nam et1 qui paeana
[p. 2064]
praetereunt, non vident mollissimum a sese numer m eundemque amplissimum praeteriri. Quod longe Aristoteli
videtur secus, qui iudicat heroum numerum grandiorem
quam desideret soluta oratio, iambum autem nimis e vul-
gari esse sermone. Ita neque humilem et abiectam2 oratio-
nem nec nimis altam et exaggeratam probat, plenam tamen
eam vult esse gravitatis, ut eos qui audient3 ad maiorem
admirationem possit traducere.
M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Rhetorica, Tomus II. A. S. Wilkins. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1911. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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