[5]
There are other details concerning which
I can give no instructions without a statement of the
particular case on which the orator has to speak.
For not only must the whole case be analysed into
its component topics and questions, but these subdivisions themselves require to be arranged in the
order which is appropriate to them. For example,
in the exordium each part has its own special place,
first, second and third, etc., while each question and
topic requires to be suitably arranged, and the same
is true even of isolated general questions.1
1 cp. II. iv. 24; III. v. 8.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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