[106]
As to addressing another in place of
the judge, it may be a means of making a point with
greater brevity and give it greater force. On this
subject I hold the same view that I expressed in
dealing with the exordium, as I do on the subject of
impersonation. This artifice however is employed not
only by Servius Sulpicius in his speech on behalf of
Aufidia, when he cries “Am I to suppose that you
were drowsed with sleep or weighed down by some
[p. 109]
heavy lethargy?” but by Cicero1 as well, when in a
passage which, like the above, belongs to the statement of facts, in speaking of the ships' captains he
says, “You will give so much to enter, etc.”
1 Verr. v. xlv. 118.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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