[8]
It will also be found useful when we are speaking of
what is likely to happen to refer to historical parallels:
for instance if the orator asserts that Dionysius is
asking for a bodyguard that with their armed assistance he may establish himself as tyrant, he may
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adduce the parallel case of Pisistratus who secured
the supreme power by similar means.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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