# Institutio Oratoria 9.2.26

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, Chapter 2. Latin.

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quae vero sunt augendis adfectibus accommodatae figurae, constant maxime simulatione. namque et irasci nos et gaudere et timere et admirari et dolere et indignari et optare, quaeque sunt similia his, fingimus. unde sunt illa, liberatus sum: respiravi; et bene habet; et quae amentia est haec? et O tempora, o mores! et Miserum me! consumptis enim lacrimis infixus tamen pectori haeret dolor; et magnae nunc hiscite terrae.

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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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