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nam ceteri fere, qui artem orandi litteris tradiderunt,
ita sunt exorsi, quasi perfectis omni alio genere
doctrinae summam in eloquentia manum imponerent, sive contemnentes tanquam parva, quae prius
discimus, studia, sive non ad suum pertinere officium
opinati, quando divisae professionum vices essent,
seu, quod proximum vero, nullam ingenii sperantes
gratiam circa res etiamsi necessarias procul tamen ab
ostentatione positas; ut operum fastigia spectantur,
latent fundamenta.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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