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Vt vero natura prius est concipere animo res quam
enuntiare, ita de iis figuris ante est loquendum, quae
ad mentem pertinent; quarum quidem utilitas cum
magna, tum multiplex, in nullo non orationis opere
vel clarissime lucet. nam etsi minime videtur
pertinere ad probationem, qua figura quidque dicatur,
facit tamen credibilia quae dicimus et in animos
iudicum, qua non observatur, irrepit.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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