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“I have
noted, judges, that the speech for the prosecution
was divided into two parts: of these, the first seemed
to rest and in the main to rely on the odium, now
inveterate, arising from the trial before Junius,
while the other appeared to touch, merely as a
matter of form, and with a certain timidity and
diffidence, on the question of the charge of poisoning, though it is to try this point that the present
court has been constituted in accordance with the
law.” All this, however, is easier for the defender
than the prosecutor, since the latter has merely to remind the judge, while the former has to instruct him.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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