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For when
they speak for the prosecution they introduce both a
statement of facts, as if they were speaking first, and a
refutation of the arguments for the defence, as if
they were replying: and they are right in so doing.
For since declamation is merely an exercise in forensic
pleading, why should they not qualify themselves to
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speak either first or second1? Those however who
do not understand the reason for such a practice,
think that when they appear in the courts they
should stick to the custom of the schools with which
they have become familiar.
1 See note prefixed to Index.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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