# Institutio Oratoria 4.4.4

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/4.4.4

item in causis obscuris aut multiplicibus, nec semper propter hoc solum ut sit causa lucidior, sed aliquando etiam ut magis moveat. movet autem, si protinus subtexantur aliqua, quae prosint. lex aperte scripta est ut peregrinus qui murum ascenderit morte multetur; peregrinum te esse cerium est; quin ascenderis murum, non quaeritur; quid superest, nisi ut te puniri oporteat? haec enim propositio confessionem adversarii premit et quodammodo iudicandi moram tollit, nec indicat quaestionem sed adiuvat.

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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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