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Comedy
is our weakest point. Although Varro quotes Aelius
Stilo1 as saying that if the Muses wished to speak
Latin, they would use the language of Plautus,
although the ancients extol Caecilius,2 and although
Scipio Africanus is credited with the works of
Terence (which are the most elegant of their kind,
and would be still more graceful if the poet had
confined himself to the iambic trimeter),
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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