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Praise too may be awarded to public works,
in connexion with which their magnificence,
utility, beauty and the architect or artist must
be given due consideration. Temples for instance
will be praised for their magnificence, walls for
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their utility, and both for their beauty or the skill of
the architect. Places may also be praised, witness
the praise of Sicily in Cicero.1 In such cases
we consider their beauty and utility: beauty calls for
notice in places by the sea, in open plains and
pleasant situations, utility in healthy or fertile
localities.
1 in Verr. ii. 1 sqq., iv. 48.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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