# Institutio Oratoria 3.11.5

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/3.11.5

quidam diviserunt αἴτιον et αἰτίαν ut esset altera, propter quam iudicium constitutum est, ut occisa Clytaemnestra, altera, qua factum defenditur, ut occisus Agamemnon. sed tanta est circa verba dissensio, ut alii αἰτίαν causam iudicii, αἴτιον autem facti vocent, alii eadem in contrarium vertant. Latinorum quidam haec initium et rationem vocaverunt, quidam utrumque eodem nomine appellant.

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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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