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id est longior quam oportet
sermo: ut apud T. Livium, legati non impetrata pace
retro domum, unde venerant, abierunt. sed huic vicina
periphrasis virtus habetur. est et πλεονασμὸς vitium,
cum supervacuis verbis oratio oneratur: ego oculis
meis vidi; sat est enim vidi.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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