Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, chapter 4, section 97

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[97] although he had [p. 493] always in previous times been regarded as an utter fool, was, after inheriting an estate, asked to speak first on a motion—

What men call wisdom is a legacy,
Probably from a lost comedy.

where legacy is substituted for the original faculty. Or again we may invent verses resembling well known lines, a trick styled parody by the Greeks. A neat application of proverbs may also be effective,

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.

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