[109]
For we must state our facts like advocates,
not witnesses. A statement in its simplest form
will run as follows, “Quintus Ligarius went out
as legate to C. Considius.” But how will Cicero1 put
it ? “Quintus Ligarius,” he says, “set out for Africa
as legate to Gaius Considius at a time when there
was no thought of war.” And again elsewhere2
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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