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ante omnia igitur illi,
qui totidem figuras putant quot adfectus, repudiandi,
non quia adfectus non sit quaedam qualitas mentis, sed quia figura, quam non communiter, sed
proprie nominamus, non sit simplex rei cuiuscunque
enuntiatio. quapropter in dicendo irasci, dolere,
misereri, timere, confidere, contemnere non sunt
figurae, non magis quam suadere, minari, rogare,
excusare.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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