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quid si
enim praecipias imperatori, quotiens aciem instruat,
derigat frontem, cornua utrinque promoveat, equites
pro cornibus locet? erit haec quidem rectissima
fortasse ratio, quotiens licebit; sed mutabitur natura
loci, si mons occurret, si flumen obstabit, collibus,
silvis, asperitate alia prohibebitur;
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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