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nam et
versificandi genus est unam legem omnibus sermonibus dare; et id cum manifestae adfectationis est
(cuius rei maxime cavenda suspicio est), tum etiam
taedium ex similitudine ac satietatem creat; quoque
est dulcius, magis perdit amittit que1 et fidem et adfectus motusque omnes, qui est ut hac cura deprehensus. nec potest ei credere aut propter eum dolere et
irasci iudex, cui putat hoc vacare.
1 amittit que, Regius: atque, MSS.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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