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Cornificius wrote a good deal, Stertinius
something, and the elder Gallio a little on the same
subject. But Gallio's predecessors, Celsus and Laenas,
and in our own day Verginius, Pliny and Tutilius,
have treated rhetoric with greater accuracy. Even
to-day we have some distinguished writers on oratory
who, if they had dealt with the subject more comprehensively, would have saved me the trouble of
writing this book. But I will spare the names of the
living. The time will come when they will reap their
meed of praise; for their merits will endure to after
generations, while the calunmies of envy will perish
utterly.
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