# Institutio Oratoria 5.11.26

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

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illa (ut dixi) propiora: ut remiges sine gubernatore, sic milites sine imperatore nihil valere. solent tamen fallere similitudinum species, ideoque adhibendum est iis iudicium. neque enim, ut navis utilior nova quam vetus, sic amicitia; vel, ut laudanda, quae pecuniam suam pluribus largitur, ita, quae formam. verba sunt in his similia uetustatis et largitionis, vis quidem longe diversa navis et amicitiae, pecuniae et pudicitiae.

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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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