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illud vero longe speciosissimum genus orationis, id
quo trium permixta est gratia, similitudinis, allegoriae, translationis: quod fretum, quem Euripum, tot
motus, tantas, tam varias habere creditis agitationes,
commutationes, fluctus, quantas perturbationes et quantos
aestus habet ratio comitiorum? dies intermissus unus
aut nox interposita saepe et perturbat omnia et totam
opinionem parva nonnunquam commutat aura rumoris.
nam id quoque id primis est custodiendum ut,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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