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alii diligentia lapsi verbis etiam uel sententiolis omnibus respondendum putant, quod est et
infinitum et supervacuum; non enim causa reprehenditur sed actor; quem ego semper videri malim
disertum, ut, si dixerit quod rei prosit, ingenii
credatur laus esse non causae; si forte laedat,1
causae non ingenii culpa.
1 non laedat, MSS, corrected by Becher.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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