Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, chapter 4, section 135

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[135] argumenta acria et citata pedibus quoque ad hanc naturam commodatis utentur, non tamen ¹ ita ut trochaeis quoque celeria quidem, sed sine viribus sint, verum iis, qui sint brevibus longisque mixti, non tamen plures longas quam breves habent.²

1 non tamen, ed. ven: nondum, MSS.

2 hahent, Halm: habentia, G.

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

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