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nam si foro non
praeparat, aut scenicae ostentationi aut furiosae vociferationi simillimum est. quid enim attinet iudicem
praeparare, qui nullus est; narrare, quod omnes
sciant falsum; probationes adhibere causae, de qua
nemo sit pronuntiaturus? et haec quidem otiosa
tantum; adfici vero et ira vel luctu permovere, cuius
est ludibrii, nisi quibusdam pugnae simulacris ad
[p. 276]
verum discrimen aciemque iustam consuescimus?
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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