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nam Lacedaemonios quidem
etiam saltationem quandam tanquam ad bella quoque utilem habuisse inter exercitationes accepimus.
neque id veteribus Romanis dedecori fuit; argumentum est sacerdotum nomine ac religione durans
ad hoc tempus saltatio, et illa in tertio Ciceronis de
Oratore libro verba Crassi, quibus praecipit, ut orator
utatur laterum inclinatione forti ac virili, non a scena et
histrionibus sed ab armis aut etiam a palaestra; cuius
disciplinae usus in nostram usque aetatem sine reprehensione descendit.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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