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nunc de argumentis. hoc enim nomine complectimur omnia, quae Graeci ἐνθυμήματα, ἐπιχειρήματα, ἀποδείξεις, vocant, quanquam apud illos est aliqua
horum nominum differentia, etiamsi vis eodem fere
tendit. nam enthymema (quod nos commentum
sane aut commentationem interpretemur, quia aliter
non possumus, Graeco melius usuri) unum intellectum habet, quo omnia mente concepta significat (sed
nunc non de eo loquimur); alterum, quo sententiam
cum ratione;
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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