# Institutio Oratoria 3.11.27

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, Chapter 11. Latin.

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Theodori schola, ut dixi, omnia refert ad capita. his plura intelliguntur: uno modo summa quaestio item ut status, altero ceterae quae ad summam referuntur, tertio propositio cum adfirmatione; ut dicimus, caput rei est, apud Menandrum κεφάλαιόν ἐστιν. in universum autem, quidquid probandum est, erit caput; sed id maius aut minus. et quoniam, quae de his erant a scriptoribus artium tradita,

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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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