# Institutio Oratoria 7.1.59

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, Chapter 1. Latin.

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haec ex duabus personis quaesita sunt. ex tertia autem, quae est adversarii, nulla oriri quaestio potest, quia nulla fit ei de sua parte controversia. nondum tamen cura deficiat. ista enim omnia dici possent etiam non restituto patre. nec statim eo tendamus, quod occurrit ultro, a rustico restitutum. qui subtiliter quaeret, aliquid spectabit ultra; nam, ut genus species sequitur, ita species genus praecedit. fingamus ergo ab alio restitutum:

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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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