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sed de ratione declamandi post paulum.
interim, quia prima rhetorices rudimenta tractamus,
non omittendum videtur id quoque, ut moneam,
quantum sit collaturus ad profectum discentium
rhetor, si, quemadmodum a grammaticis exigitur
poetarum enarratio, ita ipse quoque historiae atque
etiam magis orationum lectione susceptos a se discipulos instruxerit; quod nos in paucis, quorum id
aetas exigebat et parentes utile esse crediderant,
servavimus.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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