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It is
best therefore not to quarrel about it, more especially
as we have to use Greek terms in many other cases.
For I may at least use the words philosophus, musicus
and geometres without outraging them by changing
them into clumsy Latin equivalents. Finally,
since Cicero gave a Greek title1 to the earlier works
which he wrote on this subject, I may without fear
of rashness accept the great orator as sufficient
authority for the name of the art which he professed.
1 See § 6 of next chapter.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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