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at si bona ipsius indoles, si non caeca
ac sopita parentum socordia est, et praeceptorem
eligere sanctissimum quemque (cuius rei praecipua
[p. 42]
prudentibus cura est) et disciplinam, quae maxime
severa fuerit, licet, et nihilominus amicum gravem
virum aut fidelem libertum lateri filii sui adiungere,
cuius assiduus comitatus etiam illos meliores faciat,
qui timebantur.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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