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If it has not been
repaid, does this necessarily involve ingratitude?
Was it in his power to repay? Did he really owe
the return which was demanded of him? What is
his intention? Somewhat simpler are cases of
unjust divorce, a form of controversy which has this
peculiarity, that the accuser defends and the defendant accuses.1
1 i.e. the divorced wife defends her character, while the husband attacks her character.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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