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But
at that time Seneca's works were in the hands
of every young man, and my aim was not to ban his
reading altogether, but to prevent his being preferred to authors superior to himself, but whom he
was never tired of disparaging; for, being conscious
of the fact that his own style was very different
[p. 73]
from theirs, he was afraid that he would fail to
please those who admired them. But the young
men loved him rather than imitated him, and fell
as far below him as he fell below the ancients.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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