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[10] nec mirum, cum id inter opifices quoque vulgatum sit, unde Vergilius, argumentum ingens; vulgoque paulo numerosius opus dicitur argumentosum. Sed nunc de eo dicendum argumento est, quod probationem praestat. Celsus quiderm probationemn,1 indicium, fidem, adgressionem eiusdem rei nomina facit, parum distincte, ut arbitror.

1 praestat ... probationem, added by Meister.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.

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