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But it will be safer to discuss these considerations in detail.
The points likely to commend the accuser to the
judge have already been stated in my remarks on
the exordium.1 There are however certain things
which require fuller treatment in the peroration
than in the exordium, where it is sufficient merely to
outline them. This fuller treatment is specially
required if the accused be a man of violent, unpopular or dangerous character or if the
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condemnation of the accused is likely to cover the judges with
glory or his acquittal with disgrace.
1 IV. i 5 sq.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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