[23]
If the case affords us the means of winning the
favour of the judge, it is important that the points
which seem most likely to serve to our purpose
should be selected for introduction into the exordium.
[p. 19]
On this subject Verginius falls into error, for he
asserts that Theodorus lays down that some one
reflexion on each individual question that is involved
by the case should be introduced into the exordium.
As a matter of fact Theodorus does not say this,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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