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est quaedam
tacita dedignatio, vim dicendi tantis comparatam
[p. 54]
laboribus ad unum auditorem demittere: pudet
supra modum sermonis attolli. et sane concipiat
quis mente vel declamantis habitum vel orantis
vocem, incessum, pronuntiationem, illum denique
animi et corporis motum, sudorem, ut alia praeteream, et fatigationem, audiente uno: nonne
quiddam pati furori simile videatur? non esset in
rebus humanis eloquentia, si tantum cum singulis
loqueremur.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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