# Institutio Oratoria 6.1.25

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, Chapter 1. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/6.1.25

nam quis ferret Milonem pro capite suo supplicantem, qui a se virum nobilem interfectum, quia id fieri oportuisset, fateretur? ergo et illi captavit ex ipsa praestantia animi favorem et ira locum lacrimarum eius ipse successit. his praecipue locis utiles sunt prosopopoeiae, id est fictae alienarum personarum orationes, quales litigatorum ore dicit patronus. nudae tantum res movent; at cum ipsos loqui fingimus,

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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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