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The
whole of the story told by Caelius is full of wit and
invention, but the gem of the passage is its conclusion. “He followed him, but how he crossed the
straits, whether it was in a ship or a fisherman's
boat, no one knew; but the Sicilians, being of a
lively turn of wit, said that he rode on a dolphin and
effected his crossing like a second Arion.”1 Cicero2
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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