at ego nesciebam, quorsum tu ires. parvula
hinc est abrepta, eduxit mater pro sua,
soror dicta est: cupio abducere, ut reddam suis.
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est alia non
quidem reticentia, quae sit imperfecti sermonis, sed
tamen praecisa velut ante legitimum finem oratio:
ut illud nimis urgeo, commoveri videtur adolescens; et
quid plura?1 ipsum adolescentem dicere audistis.
imitatio morum alienorum, quae ἠθοποιία vel,
ut alii malunt, μίμησις dicitur, iam inter leniores
adfectus numerari potest; est enim posita fere in
eludendo, sed versatur et in factis et in dictis.
In factis, quod est ὑποτυπώσει vicinum; in dictis,
quale est apud Terentium:
1 ne multa, Cicero.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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