[17]
Apollodorus defines a cause in the following terms
(I quote the translation of his pupil Valgius):—“A
cause is a matter which in all its parts bears on the
question at issue,” or again “a cause is a matter of
which the question in dispute is the object.”
He then defines a matter in the following terms:—
" A matter is a combination of persons, circumstances
of place and time, motives, means, incidents, acts,
instruments, speeches, the letter and the spirit of the
law.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.