# Institutio Oratoria 5.13.3

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, Chapter 13. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/5.13.3

tum accusator praemeditata pleraque domo adfert, patronus etiam inopinatis frequenter occurrit. accusator dat testem, patronus ex re ipsa refellit. accusator e criminum invidia, etsi falsa sit, materiam dicendi trahit, de parricidio, sacrilegio, maiestate; quae patrono tantum neganda sunt. ideoque accusationibus etiam mediocres in dicendo suffecerunt; bonus defensor nemo nisi qui eloquentissimus fuit. quanquam ut, quod sentio, semel finiam, tanto est accusare quam defendere, quanto facere quam sanare vulnera, facilius.

---

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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit/blob/master/data/phi1002/phi001/phi1002.phi001.perseus-lat2.xml.