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I would not, however,
have anyone think that this method is identical
with that used in argument, where the greater is
inferred from the less, although there is a certain
resemblance between the two. For in the latter
case we are aiming at proof, in the former at
amplification; for example, in the passage just cited
about Oppianicus, the object of the comparison is
not to show that his action was a crime, but that
it was even worse than another crime. There is,
however, a certain affinity between the two methods,
and I will therefore repeata passage which I
quoted there, although my present purpose is
different.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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