Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 9.2.7

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[7] A simple question may be illustrated by the line: ¹

But who are ye and from what shores are come?

On the other hand, a question involves a figure, whenever it is employed not to get information, but to emphasise our point, as in the following examples: ²

What was that sword of yours doing, Tubero, that was drawn on the field of Pharsalus?

and

How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience?

and

Do you not see that your plots are all laid bare?

with the whole passage that follows.

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

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[7] simplex est sic rogare,

sed vos qui tandem? quibus aut venistis ab oris?

Figuratum autem, quotiens non sciscitandi gratia adsumitur, sed instandi, quid enim tuus ille, Tubero, destrictus in acie Pharsalica gladius agebat? et, quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? et, patere tua consilia non sentis? et totus denique hic locus.

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Institutio Oratoria

1. quanquam, Spalding: quam cum, A: cum, B.

2. pro. Lig. iii. 9 and in Cat. i. 1.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 9.2.7

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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