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Juba misrepresented another man's opinion, when he replied to one who complained of
being bespattered by his horse, “What, do you
think I am a Centaur?”1 Gaius Cassius misrepresented his own, when he said to a soldier whom he
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saw hurrying into battle without his sword, “Shew
yourself a handy man with your fists, comrade.” So
too did Galba, when served with some fish that had
been partially eaten the day before and had been
placed on the table with the uneaten sides turned
uppermost: “We must lose no time,” he said, “for
there are people under the table at work on the
other side.” Lastly there is the jibe that Cicero
made against Curius, which I have already cited;2
for it was clearly impossible that he should be still
unborn at a time when he was already declaiming.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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