# Institutio Oratoria 2.20.8

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, Chapter 20. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/2.20.8

nam quid orator in laudando faciet nisi honestorum et turpium peritus? aut in suadendo nisi utilitate perspecta? aut in iudiciis, si iustitiae sit ignarus? quid ? non fortitudinem postulat res eadem, cum saepe contra turbulentas populi minas, saepe cum periculosa potentium offensa, nonnunquam, ut iudicio Miloniano, inter circumfusa militum arma dicendum sit; ut, si virtus non est, ne perfecta quidem esse possit oratio.

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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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