# Institutio Oratoria 9.2.49

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/9.2.49

quae nolumus videri in adversariis esse, concedimus eis. id acrius fit, cum eadem in nobis sunt et in adversario non sunt: meque timoris argue tu, Drance, quando tot caedis acervos Teucrorum tua dextra dedit. Quod idem contra valet, cum aut ea, quae a nobis absunt, aut etiam quae in aduersarios recidunt, quasi fatemur: me duce Dardanius Spartam expugnauit adulter. Nec in personis tantum,

---

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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit/blob/master/data/phi1002/phi001/phi1002.phi001.perseus-lat2.xml.