[15]
But
Cicero has relieved me of any feeling of shame
that I might have in controverting his opinion, since
he has not only expressed his disapproval of his Rhetorica, but in the Orator,1 the de Oratore and the
Topica2 instructs us to abstract such discussions
from particular persons and occasions, “because
we can speak more fully on general than on special
themes, and because what is proved of the whole
must also be proved of the part.”
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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