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turpe
etiam illud est, contentum esse id consequi quod
imiteris. nam rursus quid erat futurum, si nemo
plus effecisset eo quem sequebatur? nihil in poetis
supra Livium Andronicum, nihil in historiis supra
Pontificum annales haberemus; ratibus adhuc
[p. 78]
navigaremus; non esset pictura, nisi quae lineas modo
extremas umbrae, quam corpora in sole fecissent,
circumscriberet.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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