# Institutio Oratoria 9.2.88

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

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non tamen nego esse controversias huiusmodi figuratas, ut est illa, reus parricidii, quod fratrem occidisset, damnatum iri videbatur; pater pro testimonio dixit cum se iubente fecisse; absolutum abdicat. nam neque in totum filio parcit nec, quod priore iudicio adfirmavit, mutare palam potest et, ut non durat ultra poenam abdicationis, ita abdicat tamen; et alioqui figura in patrem plus facit, quam licet, in filium minus.

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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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