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Again, may not the
same thing be defined in more than one way, as
Cicero does when he says, “What do we mean when
we say' commonly ': surely we mean 'by all men'?”1
May it not be given a wide and varied treatment
such as is frequently employed by all orators? For
it is rare to find orators falling victims to that form
of slavery introduced from the practice of the philosophers and tying themselves down to certain
definite words; indeed it is absolutely forbidden by
Marcus Antonius in the de Oratore2 of Cicero.
For it is a most dangerous practice, since,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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