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fiunt ergo et circa genus figurae in nominibus;
nam et oculis capti talpae et timidi dammae dicuntur
a Vergilio; sed subest ratio, quia sexus uterque
altero significatur, tamque mares esse talpas dammasque quam feminas certum est; et in verbis, ut
fabricatus est gladium et inimicum poenitus es.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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