# Institutio Oratoria 7.4.1

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, Chapter 4. Latin.

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est autem qualitas alia de summo genre atque ea quidem non simplex. nam et qualis sit cuiusque rei natura et quae forma quaeritur: an immortalis anima, an humana specie deus; et de magnitudine ac numero, quantus sol, an unus mundus. quae omnia coniectura quidem colliguntur, quaestionem tamen habent in eo, qualia sint? haec et in suasoriis aliquando tractari solent,

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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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