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I used also to note down separately whatever was
admitted both by my opponent and myself, provided
it suited my purpose, and not merely to press any
admissions that he might make, but to multiply
them by partition, as for example in the following
controversial theme:—“A general, who had stood
against his father as a candidate and defeated him,
was captured: the envoys who went to ransom him
met his father returning from the enemy. He said
to the envoys, 'You are too late.'”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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