# Institutio Oratoria 1.5.42

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, Chapter 5. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/1.5.42

in quibus nos singularem ac pluralem habemus Graeci et δυϊκόν. quanquam fuerunt, qui nobis quoque adiicerent dualem scripsere, legere; quod evitandae asperitatis gratia mollitum est, ut apud veteres pro male mereris, male merere. ideoque quod vocant dualem, in illo solo genere consistit, cum apud Graecos et in verbi tota fere ratione et in nominibus deprehendatur, et sic quoque rarissimus eius sit usus,

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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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