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[4] quodsi quis parce et, cum res poscet, utetur; velut asperso quodam condimento iucundior erit; at qui nimium adfectaverit, ipsam [p. 444] illam gratiam varietatis amittet. quanquam sunt quaedam figurae ita receptae, ut paene iam hoc ipsum nomen effugerint; quae etiamsi fuerint crebriores, consuetas aures minus ferient.

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

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