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Persons may however
also be introduced with all their attendant circumstances, if such a procedure is likely to prove useful.
For instance, “The father of my client, gentlemen,
was Aulus Cluentius Habitus, a man whose character,
reputation and birth made him the leading man not
only in his native town of Larinum, but in all the
surrounding district.”1
1 pro Cluent. v. 11.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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