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But for the fact that Cicero1
has done so, I should regard it as absurd to add to
these what is styled the conjugate argument, such as
“Those who perform a just act, act justly,” a self-evident fact requiring no proof; or again, “Every
man has a common right to send his cattle to graze
in a common pasture.”
1 Top. iii. 12.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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