# Institutio Oratoria 4.1.24

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 4, Chapter 1. Latin.

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nam ille non hoc dicit, sed ad potentissimas quaestiones iudicem praeparandum; in quo vitii nihil erat, nisi in universum id praeciperet, quod nec omnis quaestio patitur nec omnis causa desiderat. nam protinus a petitore primo loco, dum ignota iudici lis est, quomodo ex quaestionibus ducemus sententias? nimirum res erunt indicandae prius. demus aliquas (nam id exiget ratio nonnunquam); etiamne potentissimas omnes, id est totam causam? sic erit in prooemio peracta narratio.

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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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