Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler, 9.3.43

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[43] sed sensus quoque toti, quemadmodum coeperunt, desinunt: venit ex Asia. hoc ipsum quam novum! tribunus plebis venit ex Asia. * eadem tamen periodo et verbum primum ultimum ¹ refertur, tertium iam sermone, adiectum est enim verumtamen venit. interim sententia quidem repetitur, sed non eodem ² verborum ordine: quid Cleomenes facere potuit? non enim possum quemquam insimulare falso. quid , inquam, magno opere potuit Cleomenes facere? ³

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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Institutio Oratoria (Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria, Volume 1-4. Butler, Harold Edgeworth, editor. 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, translator. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd., 1920-1922.) — 9.2.43 focus

[43] And a little later,

See, he says, what for so long you refused to believe. As for myself, I cannot see, night and thick darkness veil my eyes.

This figure is too dramatic: for the story seems to be acted, not narrated.

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Institutio Oratoria

1. primum ultimum, suggested by Halm: ultimum primum,

2. sed non eodem, added by Meister.

3. the text is as given by the best MSS. of Cicero. the best MSS. of Quintilian, however, read facere Cleomenes potuit.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 9.3.43

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