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Again, if a ward make allegations against his
guardian, the latter must never give way to such
anger that no trace is left of his former love or
of a certain reverent regard for the memory of his
opponent's father. I have already spoken, in the
seventh book, I think,1 of the way in which a case
should be pleaded against a father who disinherits
his son, or a wife who brings a charge of illtreatment against her husband, while the fourth book,2
in which I prescribed certain rules for the exordium,
contains my instructions as to when it is becoming
that the parties should speak themselves, and when
they should employ an advocate to speak for them.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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