# Institutio Oratoria 5.11.30

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

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scio quosdam inani diligentia per minutissimas ista partes secuisse, et esse aliquid minus simile, ut simia homini et marmora deformata prima manu, aliquid plus, ut illud, non ovum tam simile ovo; et dissimilibus inesse simile, ut formicae et elephanto genus, quia sunt animalia; et similibus dissimile, ut canibus catulos et matribus haedos, differunt enim aetate; contrariorum quoque aliter accipi opposita,

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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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