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pessimae vero consuetudinis libellis esse contentum,
quos componit aut litigator qui confugit ad patronum, quia liti ipse non sufficit, aut aliquis ex eo
genere advocatorum, qui se non posse agere confitentur, deinde faciunt id quod est in agendo difficillimum. nam qui iudicare, quid dicendum, quid
dissimulandum, quid declinandum, mutandum, fingendum etiam sit, potest, cur non sit orator, quando,
[p. 430]
quod difficilius est, oratorem facit?
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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