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secondly those concerned with
persons, by which he indicates panegyric: thirdly the
practical or pragmatic, which is concerned with things
in general without reference to persons, and may be
illustrated by questions such as whether he is free
who is claimed as a slave and waiting the trial of his
case,1 whether riches beget insolence, and whether a
thing is just or good; lastly there is the juridical
species, under which practically the same questions
arise, but in relation to certain definite persons, as for
instance when it is asked whether that particular man
has done well or ill.
1 assertio = a trial in which the question of a person's liberty is involved. When waiting trial, this person is described as in assertiolle.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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