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efflagitasti cotidiano convicio, ut libros, quos ad
Marcellum meum de Institutione oratoria scripseram
iam emittere inciperem. nam ipse eos nondum
opinabar satis maturuisse, quibus componendis, ut
scis, paulo plus quam biennium tot alioqui negotiis
districtus impendi; quod tempus non tam stilo quam
inquisitioni instituti operis prope infiniti et legendis
auctoribus, qui sunt innumerabiles, datum est.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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