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totum autem hoc adhibendum est, quod
sit amplius compositionis genus, cum iudex non
solum rem tenet, sed etiam captus est oratione et
se credit actori et voluptate iam ducitur. historia
non tam finitos numeros quam orbem quendam contextumque desiderat. namque omnia eius membra
[p. 580]
connexa sunt et, quoniam lubrica est, hac atque
illac1 fluit, ut homines, qui manibus invicem apprehensis gradum firmant, continent et continentur.
1 atque illac added by Spalding.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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