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And even if such speeches seem unequal in point of
merit, we shall still do well to study them carefully
with a view to understanding the problems raised by
the cases with which they deal: for example, we
should compare the speeches delivered by Tubero
against Ligarius and by Hortensius in defence of
Verres with those of Cicero for the opposite side,
while it will also be useful to know how different
orators pleaded the same case. For example,
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Calidius1 spoke on the subject of Cicero's house,
Brutus wrote a declamation in defence of Milo, which
Cornelius Celsus wrongly believes to have been
actually delivered in court,2 and Pollio and Messalla
defended the same clients,3 while in my boyhood
remarkable speeches delivered by Domitius Afer,4
Crispus Passienus5 and Decimis Laelius6 in defence of Volusenus were in circulation.
1 Probably before some other tribunal. Cicero's de Domo Sua was delivered before the pontifices.
2 cp. III. vi. 93. Cornelius Celsus was an encyclopedic writer of the early empire, whose treatise on medicine has survived.
3 Liburnia. See IX. ii. 34.
4 See § 118.
5 Stepfather of Nero. See VI. i. 50.
6 Probably the Laelius Balbus of Tac. Ann,. VI. 47, 48.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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