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Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.35

lat quintilian phi001 perseus lat2

similia sunt haec: acetabula quidquid habent, et pyxides cuiuscunque materiae sunt, et parricida matris quoque aut fratris interfector. discernendumque est hoc totum a translatione genus, quod abusio est, ubi nomen defuit, translatio, ubi aliud fuit. nam poetae solent abusive etiam id his rebus, quibus nomina sua sunt, vicinis potius uti; quod rarum id prosa est.

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Stable ID quintilian:phi001-perseus-lat2:8.6.35
Source Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria — Perseus canonical-latinLit lemmatized (CLTK) · cc-by-sa-4.0
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