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nam et dociliora sunt
ingenia, priusquam obduruerunt. id vel hoc argumento patet, quod intra biennium, quam verba recte
formare potuerunt, quamvis nullo instante, omnia
fere loquuntur; at noviciis nostris per quot annos
[p. 196]
sermo Latinus repugnat. magis scias, si quem iam
robustum instituere litteris coeperis, non sine causa
dici παιδομαθεῖς eos, qui in sua quidque arte optime
faciant.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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