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omnibus enim fere verbis1 praeter
pauca, quae sunt parum verecunda, in oratione locus
est. nam scriptores quidem iamborum veterisque
comoediae etiam in illis saepe laudantur, sed nobis
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nostrum opus intueri sat est. omnia verba, exceptis de quibus dixi, sunt alicubi optima; nam et
humilibus interim et vulgaribus est opus, et quae
nitidiore in parte videntur sordida, ubi res poscit,
proprie dicuntur.
1 fere verbis, cod Harl. 4995: ferebis vel, G.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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