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We shall also
find it a useful device for wakening the attention of
our audience to create the impression that we shall
not keep them long and intend to stick closely to
the point. The mere fact of such attention undoubtedly makes the judge ready to receive instruction from us, but we shall contribute still more to
this effect if we give a brief and lucid summary of
the case which he has to try; in so doing we shall
be following the method adopted by Homer and
Virgil at the beginning of their poems.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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