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videlicet alterius intellectus ad alterum. sed elegantius, quod
est positum in distinguenda rei proprietate: hanc
rei publicae pestem paulisper reprimi, non in perpetuum
comprimi posse. Sed quae praepositionibus in contrarium mutantur: non emissus ex urbe, sed immissius
in urbem esse videatur. melius atque acrius, quod
cum figura iucundum est tum etiam sensu valet:
Emit morte immortalitatem.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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