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We may find an example
of this in the pro Cluentio1 of Cicero: “You have
frequently asserted that you are informed that I
intend to base my defence on the letter of the law.
Really! I suppose that my friends have secretly betrayed me, and that there is one among those whom
I believe to be my friends who reports my designs to
my opponent. Who gave you this information?
Who was the traitor? And to whom did I ever
reveal my design? No one, I think, is to blame.
It must have been the law itself that told you.”
But there are some who,
1 lii. 143.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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