Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 12.10.37

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[37] Even the lesser orators of Greece have their own havens where they may ride in safety, ¹ while we as a rule carry more sail. Let stronger gales fill our canvas, and yet let us not always keep the high seas; for at times we must cling to shore. The Greeks can easily traverse any shallows; I must find a deeper, though not much deeper, channel, that my bark may not run aground.

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[37] ingenia Graecorum etiam minora suos portus habent: nos plerumque maioribus velis mouemur, validior spiritus nostros sinus tendat; non tamen alto semper feremur, nam et litora interim sequenda sunt. illis facilis per quaelibet vada accessus; ego aliquid, non multo tamen, altius, in quo mea cumba non sidat, inveniam.

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1. Owing to the subtlety and delicacy of the Greek language even second-rate talent will he able to win distinction in dealing with minor things. But the coarser and more full-blooded nature of Latin makes this difficult.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 12.10.37

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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