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If our statement is to be clear and brief, almost anything can
be justified sooner than digression. And if we do
introduce a digression, it must always be short and
of such a nature that we give the impression of
having been forced from our proper course by
some uncontrollable emotion. The passage in
Cicero1 about the marriage of Sasia is a good example of this.
1 pro Clu. vi. 15.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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