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et huic contraria saepe percursio est et plus
ad intelligendum quam dixeris significatio et distincte
concisa brevitas et extenuatio, et huic adiuncta illusio;
a praeceptis Caesaris non abhorrens, et ab re digressio,
in qua cum fuerit delectatio, tum reditas ad rem aptus et
concinnus esse debebit; propositioque, quid sis dicturus,
et ab eo quod est dictum seiunctio, et reditus ad
[p. 364]
propositum et iteratio et rationis apta conclusio;
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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