# Institutio Oratoria 1.12.4

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, Chapter 12. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/1.12.4

quid ? nos agendi subita necessitate deprehensi nonne alia dicimus, alia providemus, cum pariter inventio rerum, electio verborum, compositio, gestus, pronuntiatio, vultus, motus desiderentur? quae si velut sub uno conatu tam diversa parent simul, cur non pluribus curis horas partiamur? cum praesertim reficiat animos ac reparet varietas ipsa, contraque sit aliquanto difficilius in labore uno perseverare. ideo et stilus lectione requiescit, et ipsius lectionis taedium vicibus levatur.

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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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