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verborum quoque vis ac proprietas
confirmatur vel praesumptione: quanquam illa non
poena, sed prohibitio sceleris fuit; aut reprehensione:
cives, inquam, si hoc eos nomine appellari fas est.
adfert aliquam fidem veritatis et dubitatio,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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