# Institutio Oratoria 7.4.9

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/7.4.9

est et illa ex causis facti ducta defensio priori contraria, in qua neque factum ipsum per se, ut in absoluta quaestione, defenditur neque ex contrario facto, sed ex aliqua utilitate aut rei publicae aut hominum multorum aut etiam ipsius adversarii, nonnunquam et nostra, si modo id erit, quod facere nostra causa fas sit; quod sub extrario accusatore et legibus agente prodesse nunquam potest, in domesticis disceptationibus potest.

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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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