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Arguments from unlikes present great variety, for
they may turn on kind, manner, time, place, etcetera,
almost every one of which Cicero employs to overthrow the previous decisions that seemed to apply
to the case of Cluentius,1 while he makes use of
argument from contraries when lie minimises2 the
importance of the censorial stigma by praising Scipio
Africanus, who in his capacity of censor allowed one
whom he openly asserted to have committed deliberate perjury to retain his horse, because no one
had appeared as evidence against him, though he
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promised to come forward himself to bear witness to
his guilt, if any should be found to accuse him. I
have paraphrased this passage because it is too long
to quote.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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