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aliter enim oraculorum aliter haruspicum
augurum, coniectorum, mathematicorum fides confirmari aut refelli potest, cum sit rerum ipsarum
ratio diversa. circa eiusmodi quoque instrumenta
firmanda vel destruenda multum habet operis oratio,
si quae sint voces per vinum, somnum, dementiam
[p. 190]
emissae, vel excepta parvulorum indicia, quos pars
altera nihil fingere, altera nihil iudicare dictura est.
nec tantum praestari hoc genus potenter,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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