[68]
Further I have removed
competence from those which I called species. For I
often asserted, as all who have attended my lectures
will remember, and even those discourses which
were published against my will1 included the
[p. 445]
statement, that the basis concerned with competence
hardly ever occurs in any dispute under such circumstances that it cannot more correctly be given some
other name, and that consequently some rhetoricians
exclude it from their list of bases.
1 See I. Proem. 7.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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