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de pueris, inter quos educabitur ille huic spei
destinatus, idem quod de nutricibus dictum sit. de
paedagogis hoc amplius, ut aut sint eruditi plene,
quam primam esse curam velim, aut se non esse
eruditos sciant. nihil est peius iis, qui paulum
aliquid ultra primas litteras progressi falsam sibi
scientiae persuasionem induerunt. nam et cedere
praecipiendi partibus indignantur et velut iure
quodam potestatis, quo fere hoc hominum genus
intumescit, imperiosi atque interim saevientes
[p. 24]
stultitiam suam perdocent.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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