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Above all, our orator should be equipped
with a rich store of examples both old and new:
and he ought not merely to know those which are
recorded in history or transmitted by oral tradition
or occur from day to day, but should not neglect
[p. 409]
even those fictitious examples invented by the great
poets.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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