# Institutio Oratoria 4.2.129-131

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 4.2.129 to 4.2.131. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/4.2.129

initium narrationis quidam utique faciendum a persona putant, eamque, si nostra sit, ornandam, si aliena, infamandam statim. hoc sane frequentissimum est, quia personae sunt inter quas litigatur. sed hae quoque interim cum suis accidentibus ponendae, cum id profuturum est: ut A. Cluentius Habitus fuit pater huiusce, iudices, homo non solum municipii Larinatis, ex quo erat, sed regionis illius et uicinitatis virtute, existimatione, nobilitate princeps; interim sine his ut Q. enim Ligarius cum esset; frequenter vero et a re, sicut pro Tullio Cicero fundum habet in agro Thurino M. Tullius paternum; Demosthenes pro Ctesiphonte τοῦ γὰρ Φωκικο͂ν συστάντος πολέμου.

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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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