# Institutio Oratoria 7.4.13

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/7.4.13

haec circa defensionem facti; quae si neque per se ipsa nec adhibitis auxiliis dabitur, proximum est in alium transferre crimen, si possumus. ideoque etiam in hos, qui citra scriptum sunt, status visa est cadere translatio Interdum ergo culpa in hominem relegatur, ut si Gracchus reus foederis Numantini, cuius metu leges populares tulisse in tribunatu videretur, missum se ab imperatore suo diceret.

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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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