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Such reciprocal representation places both subjects of
comparison before our very eyes, displaying them
side by side. Virgil provides many remarkable examples, but it will be better for me to quote from
oratory. In the pro Murena Cicero1 says, “As among
Greek musicians (for so they say), only those turn
flute-players that cannot play the lyre, so here at
Rome we see that those who cannot acquire the art
of oratory betake themselves to the study of the
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law.”
1 Pro Mur. xiii. 29.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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