verum ut haec amplificatio in superiora tendit, ita, quae fit per comparationem, incrementum ex minoribus petit. augendo enim, quod est infra [p. 268] necesse est extollat id quod supra positum est: ut idem atque in eodem loco,
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sed alius divideret haec
et circa singulos gradus moraretur; hic in sublime
etiam cucurrit et ad summum non pervenit nisu,
sed impetu.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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