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nam prospicere in
dextrum (quod omnes praecipiunt) et providere, non
rationis modo sed usus quoque est; quoniam sequentia intuenti priora dicenda sunt, et, quod difficillimum est, dividenda intentio animi, ut aliud
voce aliud oculis agatur. illud non paenitebit
curasse, cum scribere nomina puer (quemadmodum
moris est) coeperit, ne hanc operam in vocabulis
vulgaribus et forte occurrentibus perdat.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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