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in geometria partem fatentur esse utilem teneris
aetatibus. agitari namque animos et acui ingenia
et celeritatem percipiendi venire inde concedunt,
sed prodesse eam non ut ceteras artes, cum perceptae sint, sed cum discatur, existimant: ea vulgaris
opinio est.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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