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[4] quae delectatio aut quod mediocriter saltem docti hominis indicium, nisi alia repetitione, alia commoratione infigere, digredi a re et redire ad propositum suum scierit, removere a se, in alium traiicere, quae relinquenda, quae contemnenda sint iudicare? motus est in his orationis atque actus, quibus detractis iacet et velut agitante corpus spiritu caret.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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