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His speech
would have been much less effective, if any other
figure had been used, as will be all the more clearly
realised, if the whole of that most vigorous passage
“You are, then, in possession, Tubero, of the most
valuable advantage that can fall to an accuser etc.”
be altered so as to be addressed to the judge. For
it is a real and most unnatural diversion of the
passage, which destroys its whole force, if we say
“Tubero is then in possession of the most valuable
advantage that can fall to an accuser.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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