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For example, is
not Cicero shrewd, simple and not unduly exalted
in tone, when he deals with private eases? Is not
Calidius also distinguished for the same virtue?
Were not Scipio, Laelius and Cato the Attic orators
of Rome? Surely we ought to be satisfied with
them, since nothing can be better.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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