# Institutio Oratoria 5.10.104

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, Chapter 10. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/5.10.104

hoc genus argumentorum sane dicamus ex circumstantia, quia περίστασιν dicere aliter non possumus, vel ex iis quae cuiusque causae propria sunt: ut in illo adultero sacerdote, qui lege, qua unius servandi potestatem habebat, se ipse servare voluit, proprium controversiae est dicere, non unum nocentem servabas, quia te dimisso adulteram occidere non licebat. hoc enim argumentum lex facit, quae prohibet adulteram sine adultero occidere.

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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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