# Institutio Oratoria 5.10.54-55

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 5.10.54 to 5.10.55. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/5.10.54

ducuntur ergo argumenta ex finitione seu fine; nam utroque modo traditur. eius duplex ratio est; aut enim simpliciter quaeritur, sitne hoc virtus; aut praecedente finitione, quid sit virtus. id aut universum verbis complectimur, ut rhetorice est bene dicendi scientia; aut per partes, ut rhetorice est inveniendi recte et disponendi et eloquendi cum, firma memoria et cum dignitate actionis scientia. praeterea finimus aut vi, sicut superiora, aut ἐτυμολογίᾳ, ut si assiduum ab asse dando, et locupletem a locorum, pecuniosum a pecorum copia. finitioni subiecta maxime videntur genus, species, differens,

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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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