# Institutio Oratoria 8.4.1

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, Chapter 4. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/8.4.1

prima est igitur amplificandi vel minuendi species in ipso rei nomine: ut cum eum, qui sit caesus, occisum, eum, qui sit improbus, latronem, contraque eum, qui pulsavit, attigisse, qui vulneravit, laesisse dicimus. utriusque pariter exemplum est pro M. Caelio: si vidua libere, proterva petulanter, dives effuse, libidinosa meretricio more viveret, adulterum ego putarem, si qui hanc paulo liberius salutasset?

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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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