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quare et pueri statim, ut
praecepi, quam plurima ediscant, et, quaecunque
aetas operam iuvandae studio memoriae dabit, devoret initio taedium illud et scripta et lecta saepius
revolvendi et quasi eundem cibum remandendi.
quod ipsum hoc fieri potest levius, si pauca primum
et quae odium non adferant coeperimus ediscere,
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tum cotidie adiicere singulos versus, quorum accessio
labori sensum incrementi non adferat, in summam
ad infinitum usque perveniat, et poetica prius, tum
oratorum, novissime etiam solutiora numeris et magis
ab usu dicendi remota, qualia sunt iurisconsultorum.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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