# Institutio Oratoria 1.1.37

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, Chapter 1. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/1.1.37

non alienum fuerit exigere ab his aetatibus, quo sit absolutius os et expressior sermo, ut nomina quaedam versusque adfectatae difficultatis ex pluribus et asperrime coeuntibus inter se syllabis catenatos et velut confragosos quam citatissime volvant; χαλινοί Graece vocantur. res modica dictu, qua tamen omissa multa linguae vitia, nisi primis eximuntur annis, inemendabili in posterum pravitate durantur.

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Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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