# Institutio Oratoria 4.2.46

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

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quantum opus est autem non ita solum accipi volo, quantum ad indicandum sufficit, quia non inornata debet esse brevitas, alioqui sit indocta; nam et fallit voluptas et minus longa quae delectant videntur, ut amoenum ac molle iter, etiamsi est spatii amplioris, minus fatigat quam durum aridumque compendium.

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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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