# Institutio Oratoria 2.2.5

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/2.2.5

sumat igitur ante omnia parentis erga discipulos suos animum, ac succedere se in eorum locum, a quibus sibi liberi tradantur, existimet. ipse nec habeat vitia nec ferat. non austeritas eius tristis, non dissoluta sit comitas, ne inde odium hinc contemptus oriatur. plurimus ei de honesto ac bono sermo sit; nam quo saepius monuerit, hoc rarius castigabit. minime iracundus, nec tamen eorum, quae emendanda erunt, dissimulator, simplex in docendo, patiens laboris,

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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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