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de dignitate contendas Praeterea in contradictione interim totum crimen exponitur, ut Cicero
pro Scauro circa Bostarem facit veluti orationem
diversae partis imitatus, aut pluribus propositionibus
iunctis, ut pro Vareno, cum iter per agros et loca sola
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faceret cum Pompuleno, in familiam Ancharianam incidisse dixerunt, deinde Pompulenum occisum esse, illico
eo fieri vellet. quod est utile,1 si erit incredibilis rei
ordo et ipsa expositione fidem perditurus. interim
per partes dissolvitur, quod contextu nocet; et
plerumque id est tutius. quaedam contradictiones
natura sunt singulae; id exemplis non eget.
1 utile, Badius: utique, MSS.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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