# Institutio Oratoria 8.3.85

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/8.3.85

sequens positum in voce aut omnino suppressa aut etiam abscisa. supprimitur vox, ut fecit pro Ligario Cicero: quodsi in hac tanta fortuna bonitas tanta non esset, quam tu per te, per te inquam, obtines: intelligo, quid loquar. tacuit enim illud, quod nihilominus accipimus, non deesse homines, qui ad crudelitatem eum impellant. absciditur per ἀποσιώπησιν quae, quoniam est figura, reddetur suo loco.

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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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