Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 1.5.43

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[43] But we find not a trace of such a usage in any Latin author. On the contrary phrases such as devenere locos,¹ conticuere omnes² and consedere duces³ clearly prove that they have nothing to do with the dual. Moreover dixere,⁴ although Antonius Rufus cites it as proof to the contrary, is often used by the usher in the courts to denote more than two advocates.

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[43] apud nostrorum vero neminem haec observatio reperiatur, quin e contrario devenere locos et conticuere omnes et consedere duces aperte nos doceant, nihil horum ad duos pertinere; dixere quoque, quamquam id Antonius Rufus ex diverso ponit exemplum, de pluribus patronis praeco pronuntiet.

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Institutio Oratoria

1. Aen. i. 369:

They came to the places.

2. Aen. ii. l:

All were silent.

3. Ovid, Met. xiii. l:

The chiefs sat them down.

4. Dixere,

they have spoken,

was said when the advocates had finished their pleading.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 1.5.43

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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