# Institutio Oratoria 9.2.45

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

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quod tropos apertior est et, quanquam aliud dicit ac sentit, non aliud tamen simulat. nam et omnia circa fere recta sunt: ut illud in Catilinam, A quo repudiatus ad sodalem tuum, virum optimum, Metellum demigrasti. in duobus demum verbis est ironia, ergo etiam brevior est tropos.

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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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