# Institutio Oratoria 2.15.10

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, Chapter 15. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/2.15.10

ideoque diligentiores sibi sunt visi, qui, cum de rhetorice idem sentirent, existimaverunt eam vim dicendo persuadendi. quem finem Gorgias in eodem, de quo supra diximus, libro, velut coactus a Socrate facit; a quo non dissentit Theodectes, sive ipsius id opus est, quod de rhetorice nomine eius inscribitur, sive, ut creditum est, Aristotelis, in quo est, finem esse rhetorices ducere homines dicendo in id, quod actor velit.

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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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