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Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.41

lat quintilian phi001 perseus lat2

qualia sunt O scelus abominandum, o deformem libidinem. exornatur autem res tota maxime translationibus, cupiditas effrenata et insanae substructiones. et solet fieri aliis adiunctis epitheton tropus, ut apud Vergilium turpis egestas et tristis senectus. verum tamen talis est ratio huiusce virtutis, ut sine appositis nuda sit et velut incompta oratio, oneretur tamen multis.

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Stable ID quintilian:phi001-perseus-lat2:8.6.41
Source Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria — Perseus canonical-latinLit lemmatized (CLTK) · cc-by-sa-4.0
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