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non enim
sine causa dicitur barbarum Graecumve. nam sonis
homines ut aera tinnitu dinoscimus. ita fiet illud,
quod Ennius probat, cum dicit suauiloquenti ore Cethegum fuisse, non quod Cicero in his reprehendit, quos
ait latrare non agere. sunt enim multa vitia, de
quibus dixi, cum in quadam primi libri parte puerorum ora formarem, opportunius ratus, in ea aetate
facere illorum mentionem, in qua emendari possunt.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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