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sed haec eloquendi praecepta, sicut cogitationi
sunt necessaria, ita non satis ad vim dicendi valent,
nisi illis firma quaedam facilitas, quae apud Graecos
ἕξις nominatur, accesserit: ad quam scribendo plus
an legendo an dicendo conferatur, solere quaeri scio.
quod esset diligentius nobis examinandum, si qualibet earum rerum possemus una esse contenti.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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