# Institutio Oratoria 7.8.7

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, Chapter 8. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/7.8.7

an, quotiens propria lex non est, simili sit utendum, an id de quo agitur ei de quo scriptum est simile sit. simile autem et maius est et par et minus. in illo priore, an satis lege cautum sit, an, etsi parum cautum est, et hoc sit utendum. in utroque de voluntate legumlatoris. sed de aequo tractatus potentissimi.

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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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