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[118]
figurae non illae
poeticae et contra rationem loquendi auctoritate
veterum receptae (nam debet esse quam purissimus
sermo), sed quae varietate taedium effugiant et
[p. 114]
mutationibus animum levent, ne in eundem casum
similem compositionem, pares elocutionum tractus
incidamus. caret enim ceteris lenociniis expositio
et, nisi commendetur hac venustate, iaceat necesse
est.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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