# Institutio Oratoria 7.4

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/7.4

quae quidem, si certa aliqua via tradi in omnes materias ullo modo posset, non tam paucis contigisset. sed cum infinitae litium formae fuerint futuraeque sint et tot saeculis nulla reperta sit causa, quae esset tota alteri similis, sapiat oportet actor et vigilet et inveniat et iudicet et consilium a se ipso petat. neque infitias eo quaedam esse quae demonstrari possint, eaque non omittam.

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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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