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nam ut
illorum officium est docere, sic horum praebere se
dociles; alioqui neutrum sine altero sufficit. et
sicut hominis ortus ex utroque gignentium confertur, et frustra sparseris semina, nisi illa praemollitus foverit sulcus: ita eloquentia coalescere
[p. 272]
nequit nisi sociata tradentis accipientisque concordia.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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