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sciendum vero in primis,
quid quisque in orando postulet locus, quid persona, quid tempus; maior enim pars harum figurarum posita est in delectatione. ubi vero atrocitate,
[p. 506]
invidia, miseratione pugnandum est, quis ferat contrapositis et pariter cadentibus et consimilibus
irascentem, flentem, rogantem cum in his rebus
cura uerborum deroget adfectibus fidem et ubicunque ars ostentatur, veritas abesse videatur.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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