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We
may carry the process further: either he wished to
kill Clodius, who lay in wait for him, or he did not.
The safer course is to argue that he did not wish
to kill him. It was then the slaves of Milo who did
the deed without Milo's orders or knowledge. But
this line of defence shows a lack of courage and
lessens the weight of our argument that Clodius
was rightly killed.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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