# Institutio Oratoria 9.2.44

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

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locorum quoque dilucida et significans descriptio eidem virtuti adsignatur a quibusdam; alii τοπογραφίαν dicunt. Εἰρωνείαν inveni qui dissimulationem vocaret; quo nomine quia parum totius huius figurae vires videntur ostendi, nimirum sicut in plerisque erimus Graeca appellatione contenti. igitur Εἰρωνεία quae est schema, ab illa, quae est tropos, genere ipso nihil admodum distat; (in utroque enim contrarium ei quod dicitur intelligendum est) species vero prudentius intuenti diversas esse facile est deprehendere. primum ,

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