Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
tenuit consuetudo, quae cotidie magis invalescit, ut praeceptoribus eloquentiae, Latinis quidem
semper sed etiam Graecis interim, discipuli serius
quam ratio postulat, traderentur. eius rei duplex
causa est, quod et rhetores utique nostri suas partes
omiserunt et grammatici alienas occupaverunt.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.