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To these we may
add manner, the Greek τρόπος, in regard to which
we ask how a thing was done. Manner is concerned
sometimes with quality and the letter of the law1
(we may for instance argue that it was unlawful to
kill an adulterer by poison), sometimes with questions of fact, as for example if I argue that an act
was committed with a good intent and therefore
openly, or with a bad intent and therefore treacherously, by night, in a lonely place.
1 See § 40. Also III. vi. 55 and 66.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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