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I have known some who thought that
they had produced a brilliant imitation of the style
of that divine orator, by ending their periods with
the phrase esse videatur.1 Consequently it is of the
first importance that every student should realise
what it is that he is to imitate, and should know
why it is good.
1 cp. ix. iv. 73. Tac. Dial. 23.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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