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auctoritas ab oratoribus vel historicis peti
solet; nam poetas metri necessitas excusat, nisi
si quando nihil impediente in utroque modulatione
pedum alterum malunt, qualia sunt, imo de stirpe
recisum, et aëriae quo congessere palumbes et silice in
nuda et similia; cum summorum in eloquentia
virorum iudicium pro ratione, et velut error honestus
est magnos duces sequentibus.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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