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et est haec ratio verissima, si consilium contingat
semper bonorum atque sapientium. verum apud
imperitos, apud quos frequenter dicenda sententia
est, populumque praecipue, qui ex pluribus constat
[p. 480]
indoctis, discernenda sunt haec et secundum communes magis intellectus loquendum.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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