# Institutio Oratoria 8.6

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/8.6

nempe enim plurimum in hoc laboris exhausimus, ut ostenderemus rhetoricen bene dicendi scientiam et utilem et artem et virtutem esse; materiam eius res omnes de quibus dicendum esset; eas in tribus fere generibus, demonstrativo, deliberative, iudicialique reperiri; orationem porro omnem constare rebus et verbis; in rebus intuendam inventionem, in verbis elocutionem, in utroque collocationem, quae memoria conplecteretur, actio commendaret. oratoris officium docendi,

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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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