Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 5.13.38

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[38] Consequently when we come across denunciations such as that directed against Rullus for the obscurity of his language, ¹ or against Piso for his utter incapacity as a speaker, ² or against Antony ³ for his lack of taste and his complete ignorance both of words and things, we shall give then our sanction as reasonable concessions to passion and just resentment, and as useful in stirring up hatred against those whom it is desired to render unpopular.

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

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[38] itaque illae reprehensiones aut obscuritatis, qualis in Rullum est, aut infantiae in dicendo, qualis in Pisonem, aut inscitiae rerum verborumque et insulsitatis etiam, qualis in Antonium est, animo dantur et iustis odiis, suntque utiles ad conciliandum iis, quos invisos facere volueris, odium.

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Institutio Oratoria

1. de Leq. Agr. II. v. 13.

2. in Pis. i. 30, etc.

3. Phil. ii. 4, iii, 4, xiii. 19, etc.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 5.13.38

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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