# Institutio Oratoria 6.3.81

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, Chapter 3. Latin.

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contraria est neganti confessionis simulatio, sed ipsa quoque multum habet urbanitatis. sic Afer, cum ageret contra libertum Claudii Caesaris, et ex diverso quidam condicionis eiusdem, cuius erat litigator, exclamasset, praeterea tu semper in libertos Caesaris dicis, nec mehercule, inquit, quicquam proficio. cui vicinum est non negare quod obiicitur, cum et id palam falsum est et inde materia bene respondendi datur: ut Catulus dicenti Philippo, quid latras? furem video, inquit.

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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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