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quod quidem
cum supervacuum est, quia i tam longae quam brevis
naturam habet, tum incommodum aliquando. nam
in iis, quae proximam ab ultima litteram e habebunt
et i longa terminabuntur, illam rationem sequentes
utemur e gemina, qualia sunt haec aurei, argentei et
his similia.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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