omnia igitur ex hoc genere sumpta necesse est aut similia esse aut dissimilia aut contraria. similitudo adsumitur interim et ad orationis ornatum; sed illa, cum res exiget, nunc ea, quae ad probationem pertinent, exsequar.
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hoc in testium
interrogatione valet plurimum, in oratione perpetua
dissimile est; aut enim sibi ipse respondet orator
aut quod illic interrogatur, hic fere sumitur.1 quod
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pomum generosissimum? puto, quod optimum; et equus?
qui velocissimus: ita hominum, non qui claritate nascendi
sed qui uirtute maxime excellet.
1 aut quod ... sumitur, supplied by Meister. some such phrase must have been lost, but there can he no certainty either as regards the exact words or their precise place.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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