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rerum enim copia
verborum copiam gignit; et, si est honestas in rebus ipsis,
de quibus dicitur, exsistit ex re naturalis quidam splendor
in verbis. Sit modo is, qui dicet aut scribet, institutus
liberaliter educatione doctrinaque puerili et flagret studio
et a natura adiuvetur et in universorum generum infinitis
disceptationibus exercitatus ornatissimos scriptores oratoresque
ad cognoscendum imitandumque delegerit, ne
ille haud sane, quem ad modum verba struat et inluminet,
a magistris istis requiret; ita facile in rerum abundantia
ad orationis ornamenta sine duce natura ipsa, si modo est
exercitata, delabitur.'
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