# Institutio Oratoria 1.10.31

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, Chapter 10. Latin.

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quamvis autem satis iam ex ipsis, quibus sum modo usus, exemplis credam esse manifestum, quae mihi et quatenus musice placeat, apertius tamen profitendum puto, non hanc a me praecipi, quae nunc in scenis effeminata et impudicis modis fracta non ex parte minima, si quid in nobis virilis roboris manebat, excidit, sed qua laudes fortium canebantur, quaque ipsi fortes canebant; nec psalteria et spadicas, etiam virginibus prolis recusanda, sed cognitionem rationis, quae ad movendos leniendosque adfectus plurimum valet.

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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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