# Institutio Oratoria 9.1.28

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, Chapter 1. Latin.

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et huic contraria saepe percursio est et plus ad intelligendum quam dixeris significatio et distincte concisa brevitas et extenuatio, et huic adiuncta illusio; a praeceptis Caesaris non abhorrens, et ab re digressio, in qua cum fuerit delectatio, tum reditas ad rem aptus et concinnus esse debebit; propositioque, quid sis dicturus, et ab eo quod est dictum seiunctio, et reditus ad propositum et iteratio et rationis apta conclusio;

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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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