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alii a
propositione accusatoris contraque eam1 loci oriuntur.
saepe a persona prior ducit argumenta defensor et
interim generaliter, incredibile esse a filio patrem
occisum, ab imperatore proditam hostibus patriam.
facile respondetur vel quod omnia scelera in malos
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cadant ideoque saepe deprehensa sint, vel quod
indignum2 sit crimina ipsa atrocitate defendi. interim proprie, quod est varium. nam dignitas et
tuetur reum et nonnunquam ipsa in argumentum
facti convertitur, tanquam inde fuerit spes inpunitatis; proinde paupertas, humilitas, opes, ut cuique
ingenio vis est, in diversum trahuntur.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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