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Quintilian·Rhetoric·Prose·7 sections·2,133 words

Duo amici, ex quibus uni mater erat, peregre profecti ad tyrannum …

The opening.

1.1 to 1.3Duo amici, ex quibus uni mater erat, peregre profecti ad tyrannum …327 words
1.4 to 1.7Viderint, sanctissimi viri, . . . sed receptas nominum persuasiones …344 words
1.8 to 1.11[4] Ego non invenio, cur horreat mater arcem, quid sibi velit quasi …369 words
1.12 to 1.14[6] Dii deaeque, quam longe est lex, quae retinet hominem, qui poenae …327 words
1.15 to 1.16Differo interim causam amicitiae; agere paulisper omnium libet. et …283 words
1.17 to 1.19[9] Miseremini, iudices, ne perdat auctoritatem meritum, quod ultra …363 words
1.20[11] Supervacuo igitur hoc vos in matris causa movet, quod caeca est …120 words

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