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eius tres partes: ordo, coniunctio,
numerus. ratio ut adiectione, detractione, mutatione; usus pro natura rerum, quas dicimus: cura
ita magna, ut sentiendi atque eloquendi prior sit;
dissimulatio curae praecipua, ut numeri sponte
fluxisse, non arcessiti et coacti esse videantur.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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