# Institutio Oratoria 4.2.124

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 4, Chapter 2. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/4.2.124

quae tamen exanimatae terrore, hostium adventu percepto, excitare Antonium conabantur, nomen inclamabant, frustra a ceruicibus tollebant, blandius alia ad aurem invocabat, uehementius etiam nonnulla feriebat; quarum cum omnium vocem tactumque noscitaret, proximae cuiusque collum amplexu petebat, neque dormire excitatus neque vigilare ebrius poterat, sed semisomno sopore inter manus centurionum concubinarumque iactabatur. nihil his neque credibilius fingi neque vehementius exprobrari neque manifestius ostendi potest.

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