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Among
such themes of panegyric I would mention monuments of genius that have stood the test of time.
For some great men like Menander have received
ampler justice from the verdict of posterity than
from that of their own age. Children reflect glory
on their parents, cities on their founders, laws on
those who made them, arts on their inventors and
institutions on those that first introduced them; for
instance Numa first laid down rules for the worship
of the gods, and Publicola first ordered that the
lictors' rods should be lowered in salutation to the
people.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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