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confirmantur praecipue duobus: auctoritate eorum, qui
pronuntiaverunt, et similitudine rerum, de quibus
quaeritur; refelluntur autem raro per contumeliam
[p. 160]
iudicum, nisi forte manifesta in iis culpa erit. vult
enim cognoscentium quisque firmam esse alterius
sententiam, et ipse pronuntiaturus, nec libenter
exemplum, quod in se fortasse recidat, facit.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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