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In the
original form Cicero attacks his opponent and
presses him hard, in the passage as altered he
would merely have pointed out a fact. The same
thing results if you alter the turn of the passage in
Demosthenes. Again did not Sallust when
speaking against Cicero himself address his exordium
to him and not to the judge? In fact he actually
opens with the words “I should feel deeply injured
by your reflexions on my character, Marcus Tullius,”
wherein he followed the precedent set by Cicero
in his speech against Catiline where he opens with
the words “How long will you continue to abuse
our patience?”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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