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but
merely tame and redundant, it must be regarded as
a fault. There is also a fault entitled περιεργία, which
I may perhaps translate by superfluous elaboration,
which differs from its corresponding virtue much as
fussiness differs from industry, and superstition from
religion. Finally, every word which neither helps
the sense nor the style may be regarded as faulty.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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