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[21] quod evenit praecipue in fabulosis usque ad deridicula quaedam, quaedam etiam pudenda; unde improbissimo cuique pleraque fingendi licentia est, adeo ut de libris totis et [p. 156] auctoribus, ut succurrit, mentiantur tuto, quia inveniri qui nunquam fuere non possunt: nam in notioribus frequentissime deprehenduntur a curiosis. ex quo mihi inter virtutes grammatici habebitur aliqua nescire.

Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.

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