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paean autem in amplioribus, in utroque
dactylus. Itaque1 in varia et perpetua oratione hi sunt inter
se miscendi et temperandi. Sic minime animadvertetur
delectationis aucupium et quadrandae orationis industria;
quae latebit eo magis, si et verborum et sententiarum ponderibus utemur. Nam qui audiunt haec duo animadvertunt et iucunda sibi censent2, verba dico et sententias, eaque
dum animis attentis admirantes excipiunt, fugit eos et prae-
tervolat numerus; qui tamen si abesset, illa ipsa delecta-
rent minus3.
M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Rhetorica, Tomus II. A. S. Wilkins. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1911. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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