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The class of case last mentioned by me is,
however, not merely of frequent occurrence in
the schools, but sometimes actually occurs in the
courts. For example, the sole question in the
case of Naevius of Arpinum was whether he threw
his wife out of the window or she threw herself.
My speech in this case is the only one of all my
pleadings that I have so far published, and I admit
that I was led to do so merely by a youthful
desire for glory. For the other speeches which
circulate as mine have little in them that actually
fell from my lips, having been corrupted by the
carelessness of the shorthand-writers who took
them down with a view to making money out of
them.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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