# Institutio Oratoria 1.8.8

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, Chapter 8. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/1.8.8

de Menandro loquor, nec tamen excluserim alios. nam Latini quoque auctores adferent utilitatis aliquid. sed pueris, quae maxime ingenium alant atque animum augeant, praelegenda; ceteris, quae ad eruditionem modo pertinent, longa aetas spatium dabit. multum autem veteres etiam Latini conferunt, (quanquam plerique plus ingenio quam arte valuerunt) in primis copiam verborum, quorum in tragoediis gravitas, in comoediis elegantia et quidam velut ἀττικισμός inveniri potest.

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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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