Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 6.3.50

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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[50] too, the same word may be used not merely in several senses, but in absolutely opposite senses. For example, Nero ¹ said of a dishonest slave,

No one was more trusted in my house: there was nothing closed or sealed to him.

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

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Institutio Oratoria (English) (Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria, Volume 1-4. Butler, Harold Edgeworth, translator. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd., 1920-1922.)

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Institutio Oratoria Perseus (Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria, Volume 1-4. Butler, Harold Edgeworth, editor. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd., 1920-1922.) — 6.3.50 focus

[50] nec plura modo significari solent, sed etiam diversa, ut Nero de servo pessimo dixit nulli plus apud se fidei haberi, nihil ei neque occlusum neque signatum esse.

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Institutio Oratoria

1. Cic. de Or. II. lxi. 248. Probably C. Claudius Nero victor of the Metaurus.

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