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similis circa auctoritatem ratio. nam etiamsi
potest videri nihil peccare, qui utitur iis verbis,
quae summi auctores tradiderunt, multum tamen
refert non solum, quid dixerint, sed etiam quid
persuaserint. neque enim tuburchinabundum et
lurchinabundum iam in nobis quisquam ferat, licet
Cato sit auctor, nec hos lodices, quanquam id Pollioni
placet, nec gladiola, atqui Messala dixit, nec
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parricidatum, quod in Caelio vix tolerabile videtur, nec
collos mihi Calvus persuaserit; quae nec ipsi iam
dicerent.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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