# Institutio Oratoria 8.6.58

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

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qui haec non species allegoriae sed ipsa tropos dicant; acri quidem ratione, quod illa obscurior sit, id his omnibus aperte appareat quid velimus. cui accedit hoc quoque, quod genus, cum dividitur id species, nihil habet proprium, ut arbor pinus et olea et cupressus, et ipsius per se nulla proprietas; allegoria vero habet aliquid proprium. quod quo modo fieri potest, nisi ipsa species est? sed utentium nihil refert.

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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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