Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, chapter 4, section 84

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[84] Again the [p. 497] contrast is not always expressed antithetically, as is shown by the following passage from Rutilius: nobis primis dii immortales fruges dedelunt, nos, quod soli accepimus, in omnes terras distribuimus.¹

1 Ruatil. ii. 16. “To us first of men the immortal gods gave corn, while we have distributed that which we alone have received to all the peoples of the earth.”

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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