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Obscurity, on the other hand, results from the
employment of obsolete words, as, for instance, if
an author should search the records of the priests,
the earliest treaties and the works of long-forgotten
writers with the deliberate design of collecting
words that no man living understands. For there
are persons who seek to gain a reputation for erudition by such means as this, in order that they
may be regarded as the sole depositories of certain
forms of knowledge.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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