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[14]
id ita consequemur, si intuiti fuerimus, quae sit lex quae
litem faciat, hoc est, qua iudicium sit constitutum.
nam quaedam ex scholasticis ponuntur ad coniungendam modo actae rei seriem, ut puta: expositum
qui agnouerit, solutis alimentis recipiat. minus dicto
[p. 14]
audientem filium liceat abdicare. qui expositum recepit,
imperat ei nuptias locupletis propinquae; ille deducere
vult filiam pauperis educatoris.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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