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Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.8

lat quintilian phi001 perseus lat2

quaedam etiam parum speciosa dictu per hanc explicantur: hoc faciunt, nimio ne luxu obtunsior usus sit genitali arvo et sulcos oblimet inertes. | totum autem metaphora brevior est similitudo, eoque distat, quod illa comparatur rei quam volumus exprimere, haec pro ipsa re dicitur.

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Stable ID quintilian:phi001-perseus-lat2:8.6.8
Source Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria — Perseus canonical-latinLit lemmatized (CLTK) · cc-by-sa-4.0
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