[19]
Further, since
there are numerous points which require to be
[p. 393]
determined by appropriate and concise definitions
(hence the definitive basis1 of cases), it is surely
desirable that the orator should be instructed in
such things by those who have devoted special
attention to the subject. Again, does not every
question of law turn either on the precise meaning
of words, the discussion of equity, or conjecture as
to the intention—subjects which in part encroach on
the domain of dialectic and in part on that of ethics?
1 See III vi. 31.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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