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verum auctoritate, vetustate, consuetudine plerumque defenditur, saepe etiam ratione
quadam. ideoque, cum sit a simplici rectoque
loquendi genere deflexa, virtus est, si habet probabile
aliquid, quod sequatur. una tamen in re maxime
utilis, ut cotidiani ac semper eodem modo formati
sermonis fastidium levet et nos a vulgari dicendi
genere defendat.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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