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nam Latini quoque auctores
adferent utilitatis aliquid. sed pueris, quae maxime
[p. 150]
ingenium alant atque animum augeant, praelegenda;
ceteris, quae ad eruditionem modo pertinent, longa
aetas spatium dabit. multum autem veteres etiam
Latini conferunt, (quanquam plerique plus ingenio
quam arte valuerunt) in primis copiam verborum,
quorum in tragoediis gravitas, in comoediis elegantia
et quidam velut ἀττικισμός inveniri potest.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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