# Institutio Oratoria 4.2.86

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

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narrationem ideo ante probationes ponere est institutum, ne iudex, qua de re quaeratur, ignoret. cur igitur, si singula probanda aut refellenda erunt, non singula etiam narrentur? me certe, quantacunque nostris experimentis habenda est fides, fecisse hoc in foro, quotiens ita desiderabat utilitas, probantibus et eruditis et iis, qui iudicabant, scio; et (quod non arroganter dixerim, quia sunt plurimi, quibuscum egi, qui me refellere possint, si mentiar) fere ponendae a me causae officium exigebatur.

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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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