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et patientior est laboris natura pueris
quam iuvenibus. videlicet, ut corpora infantium
nec casus, quo in terram totiens deferuntur, tam
graviter adfligit nec illa per manus et genua reptatio
nec post breve tempus continui lusus et totius diei
discursus, quia pondus illis abest nec sese ipsi
gravant: sic animi quoque, credo, quia minore
conatu moventur nec suo nisu studiis insistunt, sed
formandos se tantummodo praestant, non similiter
fatigantur.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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