# Institutio Oratoria 5.11.24

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, Chapter 11. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/5.11.24

et quoniam similium alia facies in alia ratione, admonendum est rarius esse in oratione illud genus, quod εἰκόνα Graeci vocant (quo exprimitur rerum aut personarum imago, ut Cassius: quis istam faciem planipedis senis torquens? ) quam id, quo probabilius fit quod intendimus: ut, si animum dicas excolendum, similitudine utaris terrae, quae neglecta spinas ac dumos, culta fructus creat; aut si ad curam rei publicae horteris, ostendas apes etiam formicasque, non modo muta, sed etiam parva animalia, in commune tamen laborare.

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