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The
derogatory he illustrates by the words used by
Cicero of Pompey and Caesar in a letter to Atticus:1
“I know whom to avoid, but whom to follow I
know not.” Finally, he illustrates the intermediate, which he calls apophthegmatic (as it is), by
the passage from Cicero's speech against Catiline2
where he says, “Death can never be grievous to the
brave nor premature for one who has been consul
nor a calamity to one that is truly wise.” All these
are admirable sayings, but what special title they
have to be called urbane I do not see.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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