[22]
At times again we may pretend
that we are repeating the facts for the benefit of
some new member of the jury,1 at times that we do
so with a view to letting every bystander as well realise
the gross unfairness of our opponents' assertions.
Under these circumstances our statement must be
diversified by a free use of figures to avoid wearying
those to whom the facts are familiar: we shall for
instance use phrases such as “You remember,” “It
may perhaps be superfluous to dwell on this point,”
“But why should I say more, as you are well acquainted
with the fact?”, “You are not ignorant how this
matter stands” and so on.
1 i.e. introduced to fill the place of a juror who had had to leave the jury.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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