A Direct Quotation gives the exact words of the original speaker or writer (ōrātiō Rēcta).
An Indirect Quotation adapts the words of the speaker or writer to the construction of the sentence in which they are quoted (ōrātiō Oblīqua).
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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