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initium
ergo dicendi dedit natura, initium artis observatio.
homines enim, sicuti in medicina, cum viderent alia
salubria, alia insalubria, ex observatione eorum effecerunt artem, ita, cum in dicendo alia utilia, alia
inutilia deprehenderent, notarunt ea ad imitandum
vitandumque, et quaedam secundum rationem eorum
adiecerunt ipsi quoque; haec confirmata sunt usu,
tum quae sciebat quisque docuit.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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