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περίεργον. atqui hanc quidam
ὀρθοέπειαν solam putant, quam ego minime excludo.
quid enim tam necessarium quam recta locutio?
immo inhaerendum ei iudico, quoad licet, diu etiam
mutantibus repugnandum; sed abolita atque abrogata
retinere insolentiae cuiusdam est et frivolae in parvis
iactantiae.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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