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For there must needs be something on every
occasion that takes precedence of pleasure: in proposing the institution of public games there is the honour
due to the gods; in proposing the erection of a
theatre the orator will consider the advantages to be
derived from relaxation from toil, and the unbecoming
and undesirable struggle for places which will arise if
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there is no proper accommodation; religion, too, has
its place in the discussion, for we shall describe the
theatre as a kind of temple for the solemnization of a
sacred feast.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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