# Institutio Oratoria 8.6.20

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, Chapter 6. Latin.

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nam prosa, ut mucronem pro gladio et lectum pro domo recipiet, ita non puppim pro navi nec abietem pro tabellis; et rursus, ut pro gladio ferrum, ita non pro equo quadrupedem. maxime autem id orando valebit numerorum illa libertas. nam et Livius saepe sic dicit, Romanus proelio victor, cum Romanos vicisse significat; et contra Cicero ad Brutum, populo , inquit, imposuimus et oratores visi sumus, cum de se tantum loqueretur.

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