# Institutio Oratoria 1.5.8

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/1.5.8

unum gente, quale est, si quis Afrum vel Hispanum Latinae orationi nomen inserat, ut ferrum, quo rotae vinciuntur, dici solet cantus, quanquam eo tanquam recepto utitur Persius; sicut Catullus ploxenum circa Padum invenit, et in oratione Labieni (sive illa Cornelii Galli est) in Pollionem casamo adsectator e Gallia ductum est; nam mastrucam, quod Sardum est, irridens Cicero ex industria dixit.

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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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