[27]
For there is scarce a single
day in our lives that is so full of occupations that we
may not, at some moment or other, snatch a few
precious minutes, as Cicero1 records that Brutus was
[p. 149]
wont to do, either for writing or reading or speaking;
Gaius Carbo,2 for example, was in the habit of indulging in such exercises even in his tent.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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