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Further,
it is impossible to make our prose rhythmical except
by artistic alterations in the order of words, and
the reason why those four words in which Plato1
in the noblest of his works states that he had gone
down to the Piraeus were found written in a number
of different orders upon his wax tablets, was simply
that he desired to make the rhythm as perfect as
possible.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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