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as the man did who asked a witness, who
alleged that lie had been wounded by the accused,
whether he had any scar to show for it. The witness
proceeded to show a huge scar on his thigh, on which
lie remarked, “I wish he had wounded you in the
side.”1 A happy use may also be made of insult.
Hispo, for example, when the accuser charged him
with scandalous crimes, replied, “You judge my
character by your own”; while Fulvius Propinquus,
when asked by the representative of the emperor
whether the documents which he produced were
autographs, replied, “Yes, Sir, and the handwriting
is genuine, too!”2
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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