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“Some young men who were
in the habit of making merry together decided to
dine on the sea-shore. One of their party failed
to put in an appearance, and they raised a tomb to
him and inscribed his name thereon. His father on
his return from overseas chanced to land at this
point of the shore, read the name and hung himself.
It is alleged that the youths were the cause of
his death.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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