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But to this there is the obvious
retort, “Even if you could not actually plead,
you might have supported him by your presence,”
which is no more than the simple truth. The uneducated son must therefore return to the intention
of the legislator. “He wished to punish unfilial
conduct, but I am not unfilial.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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