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Whether this type of exercise was actually invented by him I have failed to
discover, as I have acknowledged in another work.1
But not even those who most strongly assert his
claim to be the inventor, can produce any adequate
authority in support of their opinion. As regards
Latin teachers of rhetoric, of whom Plotius was the
[p. 247]
most famous, Cicero2 informs us that they came into
existence towards the end of the age of Crassus.
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