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neque ignoro quosdam esse, qui curam omnem
compositionis excludant, atque illum horridum sermonem, ut forte fluxerit, modo magis naturalem,
modo etiam magis virilem esse contendant. qui
si id demum naturale esse dicunt, quod natura
primum ortum est et quale ante cultum fuit, tota
haec ars orandi subvertitur.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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