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As regards the other
arguments derived from character, I have already
discussed them in connexion with “places” of
argument.1
The next type of proof is derived from causes or
motives, such as anger, hatred, fear, greed or hope,
since all motives can be classified as species of one
or other of these. If any of these motives can be
plausibly alleged against the accused, it is the duty
of the accuser to make it appear that such motives
may lead a man to commit any crime, and to exaggerate the particular motives which he selects for
the purpose of his argument.
1 v. x. 20, where argumentorum loci are defined as "the dwellings of arguments, where they hide and where we must look for them.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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