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This is no
easy task even for the expert instructor, and the
pupil who handles it successfully will be capable of
learning everything. He should also be set to write
aphorisms, moral essays (chriae) and delineations of character (ethologiae),1 of which the teacher will first give
the general scheme, since such themes will be drawn
from their reading. In all of these exercises the
general idea is the same, but the form differs:
aphorisms are general propositions, while ethologiae
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are concerned with persons
1 The meaning of ethologia is doubtful, but probably means a simple character-sketch of some famous man.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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