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Noctes Atticae

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Noctes Atticae Gellius, Aulus

Book 13

20 Thus spoke Sulpicius Apollinaris in my hearing. Later we found that what he had said was so, when we read the Funeral Eulogies and the Genealogy of the Porcian Family.
21 That the most elegant writers pay more attention to the pleasing sound of words and phrases (what the Greeks call eu)fwni/a, or euphony) than to the rules and precepts devised by the grammarians.