incrementum est potentissimum, cum magna videntur etiam quae inferiora sunt. id aut uno gradu fit aut pluribus et pervenit non modo ad summum sed interim quodammodo supra summum. omnibus his sufficit vel unum Ciceronis exemplum:
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illo enim modo ut sit multum,
hoc etiam plus ut sit efficitur. quattuor tamen
maxime generibus video constare amplificationem,
incremento, comparatione, ratiocinatione, congerie.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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