# Institutio Oratoria 7.4.4-5

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 7.4.4 to 7.4.5. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/7.4.4

defensio longe potentissima est, qua ipsum factum, quod obiicitur, dicimus honestum esse. abdicatur aliquis, quod invito patre militarit, honores petierit, uxorem duxerit: tuemur, quod fecimus. hanc partem vocant Hermagorei κατ᾽ ἀντίλημψιν, ad intellectum id nomen referentes. Latine ad verbum translatam non invenio; absoluta appellatur. sed enim de re sola quaestio, iusta sit ea necne. iustum omne continetur natura vel constitutione; natura, quod fit secundum cuiusque rei dignitatem.

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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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