[95]
Take for instance the case of the parasite
who claims as his son a young man who has been
[p. 103]
thrice disinherited by a wealthy father and thrice
restored to his own. He will be able to put forward
as a gloss or plea that poverty was the reason why he
exposed the child, that he assumed the role of a
parasite because his son was in the house in question
and, lastly, that the reason why the young man was
thrice disinherited was simply that he was not the
son of the man who disinherited him.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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