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hoc
autem his accidit, qui non introspectis penitus virtutibus ad primum se velut aspectum orationis aptarunt;
et cum iis felicissime cessit imitatio, verbis atque
numeris sunt non multum differentes, vim dicendi
atque inventionis non adsequuntur, sed plerumque
declinant in peius et proxima virtutibus vitia comprehendunt fiuntque pro grandibus tumidi, pressis exiles,
fortibus temerarii, laetis corrupti, compositis exultantes, simplicibus negligentes.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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