# Institutio Oratoria 8.3.80

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

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illud pro eodem iam paene poetico spiritu, sed tamen cum sua redditione, quod est ad ornatum accommodatius: nam ut tempestates saepe certo aliquo caeli signo commoventur, saepe improvisae nulla ex certa ratione obscura aliqua ex causa concitantur, sic in hac comitiorum tempestate populari saepe intelligas, quo signo commota sit, saepe ita obscura est, ut sine causa excitata videatur. sunt et illae breves,

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