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their beards and gloomy brows are ill-suited not
merely to luxuriance of style, such as we find in
Cicero's “Rocks and solitudes answer to the voice,”1
but even to full-blooded passages as, “For on you I
call, ye hills and groves of Alba; I call you to bear
me witness, and ye, too, fallen altars of the Albans,
that were once the peers and equals of the holy
places of Rome.”2
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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