[51]
If however after employing all these artifices
our array of facts is still long, it will not be without
advantage to append a summary at the end of it as
a reminder: Cicero does this even at the close of a
[p. 79]
brief statement of facts in the pro Ligario:1 “To
this day, Caesar, Quintus Ligarius is free from all
blame: he left his home not merely without the
least intention of joining in any war, but when there
was not the least suspicion of any war etc.”
1 pro Lig. ii. 4.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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