# Institutio Oratoria 9.3.75-76

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, Chapter 3, lines 9.3.75-9.3.76. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/9.3.75

similium fere quadruplex ratio est. nam est primum, quotiens verbum verbo aut non dissimile valde quaeritur, ut puppesque tuae pubesque tuorum; et sic in hac calamitosa fama quasi in aliqua perniciosissima flamma, et non enim tam spes laudanda quam res est, aut certe par et extremis syllabis consonans: non verbis, sed armis.
sed hoc quoque, quotiens in sententias acres incidit, pulchrum est: quantum possis, in eo semper experire, it prosis. hoc est πάρισον, ut plerisque placuit. Theo Stoicus πάρισον existimat, quod sit e membris non dissimilibus.

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