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ceterum quanto vehementior fluminum cursus est prono alveo ac nullas moras obiiciente quam inter obstantia saxa fractis aquis ac
reluctantibus, tanto, quae connexa est et totis
viribus fluit, fragosa atque interrupta melior oratio.
cur ergo vires ipsa specie solvi putent, quando
[p. 510]
res nec ulla sine arte satis valeat et comitetur
semper artem decor?
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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