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solebam et hoc facere,1 ut vel ab ultima specie
(nam ea fere est, quae continue causam) retrorsum
quaererem usque ad primam generalem quaestionem,
vel a genere ad extremam speciem descenderem,
etiam ex suasoriis.
1 facere is followed by praecipere, which is expunged by Meister as a gloss.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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