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So too I feel clear that we should rank as
consequential arguments those derived from facts
which lend each other mutual support and are by
some regarded as forming a separate kind of argument, which they1 call ἐκ τῶν πρὸς ἄλληλα, arguments
from things mutually related, while Cicero2 styles
them arguments drawn from things to which the
same line of reasoning applies; take the following
example3: “If it is honourable for the Rhodians to
let out their harbour dues, it is honourable likewise
for Hermocreon to take the contract,” or “What it
is honourable to learn, it is also honourable to teach.”
Such also is the fine sentence of Domitius Afer,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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