Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, chapter 3, section 47

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

book : chapter : section
page

Table of Contents:

view as XML

Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics

[47] nec scripto modo id accidit, sed etiam sensu plerique obscene intelligere, nisi caveris, cupiunt (ut apud Ovidium quaeque¹ latent meliora putat) et ex verbis, quae longissime ab obscenitate absunt, occasionem turpitudinis rapere. siquidem Celsus κακέμφατον apud Vergilium putat:

incipiunt agitata tumescere.

Quod si recipias, nihil loqui tutum est.

1 si qua, MSS. of Ovid.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.

view as XML

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.