# Institutio Oratoria 7.3.34

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, Chapter 3. Latin.

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nec fuerit rei causa mortis solum adolescentium factum sed credulitas senis, rei dolore ferundo infirmitas; denique, si fortior fuisset aut prudentior, uiueret. nec mala mente fecerunt; et ille potuit vel ex loco tumuli vel ex opere tumultuario suspicari non esse monumentum. qui ergo puniri debent, rei quibus omnia absunt homicidae praeter manum?

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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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