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nam quis ignorat musicen (ut de hae
primum loquar) tantum iam illis antiquis temporibus
non studii modo verum etiam venerationis habuisse,
ut iidem musici et vates et sapientes iudicarentur
(mittam alios) Orpheus et Linus; quorum utrumque
dis genitum, alterum vero, quia rudes quoque atque
agrestes animos admiratione mulceret, non feras
modo sed saxa etiam silvasque duxisse posteritatis
memoriae traditum est.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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