# Institutio Oratoria 3.11.6

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/3.11.6

causa quoque ex causa, id est αἴτιον ἐξ αἰτίου nasci videtur, quale est: Occidit Agamemnonem Clytaemnestra, quia ille filiam communem immolaverat et captivam pellicem adducebat. iidem putant et sub una quaestione plures esse rationes, ut si Orestes et alteram adferat causam matris necatae, quod responsis sit impulsus; quot autem causas faciendi, totidem iudicationes; nam et haec erit iudicatio, an responsis parere debuerit.

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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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