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illa (ut dixi) propiora: ut remiges sine gubernatore, sic milites sine imperatore nihil
valere. solent tamen fallere similitudinum species,
ideoque adhibendum est iis iudicium. neque enim,
ut navis utilior nova quam vetus, sic amicitia; vel, ut
laudanda, quae pecuniam suam pluribus largitur, ita,
quae formam. verba sunt in his similia uetustatis et
largitionis, vis quidem longe diversa navis et amicitiae,1
pecuniae et pudicitiae.
1 navis et amicitiae, added by Spalding.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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