“In early spring, when on the mountains hoaror of the causes of an occurrence, such as the historians are so fond of setting forth, when they explain the origin of a war, a rebellion or a pestilence. Further they style some statements of fact “complete,” and others “incomplete,”
The snows dissolve),
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1 “Lampsacus, gentlemen, is a town situated
on the Hellespont”), or of the time at which something occurred (as in the verse2
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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