# Institutio Oratoria 8.3.44

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, Chapter 3. Latin.

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sed quoniam vitia prius demonstrare aggressi sumus, ab hoc initium sit, quod κακέμφατον vocatur, sive mala consuetudine in obscenum intellectum sermo detortus est (ut ductare exercitus et patrare bella, apud Sallustium dicta sancte et antique ridentibus, si dis placet; quam culpam non scribentium quidem iudico sed legentium,

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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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