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conjecture as to intention is
obviously concerned with all three times. We ask
with what purpose Ligarius went to Africa, with
what purpose Pyrrhus is asking for a treaty, and
how Caesar will take it if Ptolemy kills Pompey.1
We may also employ conjecture to enquire into
quality in questions dealing with size, species and
number, such as whether the sun is greater than the
earth, whether the moon is spherical, flat or conical,
whether there is one universe or several, or,
1 cp. III. viii. 56.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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