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sed sicut firmiores in litteris profectus alit aemulatio, ita incipientibus atque
adhuc teneris condiscipulorum quam praeceptoris
iucundior hoc ipso quod facilior imitatio est. vix
enim se prima elementa ad spem tollere effingendae,
quam summam putant, eloquentiae audebunt; proxima amplectentur magis, ut vites arboribus applicitae
inferiores prius apprehendendo ramos in cacumina
[p. 52]
evadunt.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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