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However, to say nothing of Homer, in whom we
may find either the perfect achievements, or at
any rate clear signs of the knowledge of every art,
[p. 509]
and to pass by Hippias of Elis, who not merely
boasted his knowledge of the liberal arts, but wore
a robe, a ring and shoes, all of which he had made
with his own hands, and had trained himself to be
independent of external assistance, we accept the
universal tradition of Greece to the effect that
Gorgias, triumphant over all the countless ills incident to extreme old age, would bid his hearers
propound any questions they pleased for him to
answer.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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