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obstat hoc
agnitioni earum non intendentibus mox animum ad
ipsos ductus, dum antecedentem memoriam sequuntur. quae causa est praecipientibus, ut etiam,
cum satis adfixisse eas pueris recto illo quo primum
scribi solent contextu videntur, retro agant rursus et
varia permutatione turbent, donec litteras qui instituuntur facie norint non ordine. quapropter
optime sicut hominum pariter et habitus et nomina
edocebuntur.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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