Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler, 9.3.79

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[79] neque enim semper paribus syllabis constat, ut est apud Afrum, amisso nuper infelicis aulae si non ¹ praesidio inter pericula tamen solacio inter adversa. eius fere videntur optima, in quibus initia sententiarum et fines, consentiunt, ut hic praesidio solacio, pericula adversa,² paene ³ ut similia sint verbis et paribus cadant et eodem modo desinant.

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

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[79] Consequently it was not merely in cases where respect for persons prevented direct speaking (a circumstance which as a rule calls for caution rather than figures ) that they would have recourse to figurative methods, but they made room for them even under circumstances where they were useless or morally inadmissible, as for example in a case where a father, who had secretly slain his son whom he suspected of incest with his mother, and was accused of ill-treating his wife, was made to bring indirect insinuations against his wife.

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1. infelicis aulae si non, an early emendation: infelicis auleis non, MSS. Halm conjectures infelicibus ausis non modo p.i.p., sed etiam solacio i.a.

2. pericula adversa, inserted by G Laubmann.

3. paene ut, ed. ald : pedem et, MSS.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 9.3.79

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