# Institutio Oratoria 5.2.2

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, Chapter 2. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/5.2.2

confirmantur praecipue duobus: auctoritate eorum, qui pronuntiaverunt, et similitudine rerum, de quibus quaeritur; refelluntur autem raro per contumeliam iudicum, nisi forte manifesta in iis culpa erit. vult enim cognoscentium quisque firmam esse alterius sententiam, et ipse pronuntiaturus, nec libenter exemplum, quod in se fortasse recidat, facit.

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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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