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tertium genus ex iis, quae extrinsecus adducuntur in causam, Graeci vacant παράδειγμα, quo
nomine et generaliter usi sunt in omni similium
adpositione et specialiter in iis, quae rerum gestarum
auctoritate nituntur. nostri fere similitudinem vocari maluerunt, quod ab illis παραβολὴ dicitur, alterum
exemplum, quanquam et hoc simile est et illud
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exemplum.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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