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Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.2.6

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unde abusio, quae κατάχρησις dicitur, necessaria. translatio quoque, in qua vel maximus est orationis ornatus, verba non suis rebus accommodat. quare proprietas non ad nomen, sed ad vim significandi refertur nec auditu, sed intellectu perpendenda est.

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