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quo fit, ut
non rudia tantum et fortuita, sed impropria interim,
dum sola est connectendi sermonis cupiditas, effluant,
quae nec scribentium curam nec dicentium impetum
consequantur. at idem ille, qui excipit, si tardior in
scribendo aut incertior in intellegendo1 velut offensator fuit, inhibetur cursus, atque omnis quae erat
concepta mentis intentio mora et interdum iracundia excutitur.
1 intellegendo, Müller: legeldo, B.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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