# Institutio Oratoria 3.6.17

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, Chapter 6. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/3.6.17

sit enim accusatoris intentio, hominem occidisti. si negat reus, faciat statum qui negat. quid si confitetur, sed iure a se adulterum dicit occisum? nempe legem esse certum est quae permittat. nisi aliquid accusator respondet, nulla lis est. non fuit , inquit, adulter; ergo depulsio incipit esse actoris, ille statum faciet. ita erit quidem status ex prima depulsione, sed ea fiet ab accusatore non a reo.

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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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