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Others
make the number of categories to be nine. Person,
involving questions concerning the mind, body or
external circumstances, which clearly has reference
to the means by which we establish conjecture or
quality. Time, or χρόνος, from which we get questions
such as whether a child is born a slave, if his mother
is delivered of him while assigned1 to her creditors.
Place, from which we get such disputes as to whether
it is permissible to kill a tyrant in a temple, or
whether one who has hidden himself at home can be
regarded as an exile.
1 addicti were not technically servi, though in a virtual condition of servitude, being the bondsmen of their creditors till their debt was paid.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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