# Institutio Oratoria 5.13.47

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

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nam hoc persaepe dixisti, tibi sic renuntiari, me habere in animo causam hanc praesidio legis defendere. itane est? ab amicis imprudentes videlicet prodimur? et est nescio quis de iis, quos amicos nobis arbitramur, qui nostra consilia ad adversarium deferat? quisnam hoc tibi renuntiavit? quis tam improbus fuit; cui ego autem narravi? nemo , ut opinor, in culpa est; nimirum tibi istud lex ipsa renuntiarit.

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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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