etenim rarus aut nullus est, cui meditaturo par affatim assistat dispositio per causas, positio per litteras, compositio per syllabas, ad hoc opportunitas in exemplis fides in testimoniis, proprietas in epithetis urbanitas in figuris, virtus in argumentis pondus in sensibus, flumen in verbis fulmen in clausulis.
for there are few or none who, when about to compose, have abundantly at command the same power of arranging subjects, the same power of allocating letters and combining syllables, or the same aptness in the instances quoted and reliability in the testimonies; the same propriety in the epithets and urbanity in the figures; the same force in the arguments and weight in the sentiments, the same flow in the words and the same vivid flash in the endings.
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