ceterum consonantes quoque, earumque praecipue quae sunt asperiores, ut commissura verborum rixantur, ut si s ultima cum x proxima confligat, quarum tristior etiam, si binae collidantur, stridor est, ut ars studiorum.
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qua de re utar Ciceronis potissimum
verbis. habet, inquit, ille tanquam hiatus et concursus
vocalium molle quiddam, et quod indicet non ingratam
negligentiam de re hominis magis quam de verbis laborantis.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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