# Institutio Oratoria 1.6.22

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, Chapter 6. Latin.

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quis negat? sed adiacet et mollior et magis trita. ego tamen non alio magis angor, quam quod obliquis casibus ducti etiam primas sibi positiones non invenire sed mutare permittunt: ut cum ebur et robur, ita dicta ac scripta summis auctoribus, in o litteram secundae syllabae transferunt, quia sit roboris et eboris, sulpur autem et guttur u litteram in genitivo servent; ideoque iecur etiam et femur controversiam fecerunt.

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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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