# Institutio Oratoria 2.20.9

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/2.20.9

quodsi ea in quoque animalium est virtus, qua praestat cetera vel pleraque, ut in leone impetus, in equo velocitas, hominem porro ratione atque oratione excellere ceteris certum est: cur non tam in eloquentia quam in ratione virtutem eius esse credamus, recteque hoc apud Ciceronem dixerit Crassus: est enim eloquentia una quaedam de summis virtutibus, et ipse Cicero sua persona cum ad Brutum in epistulis, tum aliis etiam locis virtutem eam appellet?

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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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