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Of this kind is the saying
of Cicero1: “As our bodies can make no use of
their members without a mind to direct them, so the
state can make no use of its component parts, which
may be compared to the sinews, blood and limbs,
unless it is directed by law.” And just as he draws
this simile in the pro Cluentio from the analogy of
the human body, so in the pro Cornelio2 he draws
a simile from horses, and in the pro Archia3 from
stones.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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