# Institutio Oratoria 9.2.83

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

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at credibile est, hoc eum velle. fortasse ; dissimulet ergo, ut efficiat. sed nobis (declamatoribus dico) quid proderit hoc intellexisse, nisi dixerimus? ergo , si vere ageretur, similiter consilium illud latens prodidissemus? quid ? si neque utique verum est, et habere alias hic damnatus contradicendi causas potest, vel quod legem conservandam putet, vel quod nolit accusatori debere beneficium, vel (quod ego maxime sequerer) ut innocentem se esse in tormentis pertendat?

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