“
[49]
” Some
things indeed may be omitted altogether from our
marshalling of the facts, witness the following
example from Cicero,1 “Fulcinius died; there are
many circumstances which attended that event, but
as they have little bearing on this case, I shall pass
them by.” Division of our statement into its various
heads is another method of avoiding tedium: for
example, “I will tell you first what preceded this
affair, then what occurred in its actual development,
and finally you shall hear its sequel.”
1 pro Caec. iv. 11.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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