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nam
ut illi robur ac lacertos barbamque ante omnia et
alia, quae natura proprie maribus dedit, parum existimant decora, quaeque fortia, si liceret, forent ut dura
molliunt, ita nos habitum ipsum orationis virilem et
illam vim stricte robusteque dicendi tenera quadam
elocutionis cute operimus et, dum levia sint ac
[p. 308]
nitida, quantum valeant, nihil interesse arbitramur.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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