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dilucida vero erit pronuntiatio prinum, si verba tota
exierint, quorum pars devorari, pars destitui solet,
plerisque extremes syllabas non perferentibus, dum
priorum sono indulgent. ut est autem necessaria
uerborum explanatio, ita omnes imputare et velut
adnumerare litteras molestum et odiosum.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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