# Institutio Oratoria 9.2.40

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/9.2.40

ilia vero, ut ait Cicero, sub oculos subiectio tum fieri solet, cum res non gesta indicatur, sed ut sit gesta ostenditur, nec universa, sed per partes; quem locum proximo libro subiecimus evidentiae, et Celsus hoc nomen isti figurae dedit. ab allis ὑποτύπωσις dicitur proposita quaedam forma rerum ita expressa verbis, ut cerni potius videatur quam audiri: ipse inflammatus scelere et furore in forum venit, ardebant oculi, toto ex ore crudelitas eminebat.

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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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