# Institutio Oratoria 7.4.23

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/7.4.23

similiter liberalitas a quo profecta sit, refert. nam in paupere gratior quam in divite, dante beneficium quam reddente, patre quam orbo. item in quam rem dederit et quo tempore et quo animo, id est, num in aliquam spem suam; similiter alia. et ideo qualitas maxime oratoris recipit operam, quia in utramque partem plurimum est ingenio loci, nec usquam tantum adfectus valent.

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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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