# Institutio Oratoria 8.3.64

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

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plurimum in hoc genere sicut in ceteris eminet Cicero. an quisquam tam procul a concipiendis imaginibus rerum abest, ut non, cum illa in Verrem legit, stetit soleatus praetor populi Romani cum pallio purpureo tunicaque talari muliercula nixus in litore, non solum ipsos intueri videatur et locum et habitum, sed quaedam etiam ex iis, quae dicta non sunt, sibi ipse adstruat?

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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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