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For what I have now to demonstrate is
that when amplification is our purpose we
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compare not merely whole with whole, but part with
part, as in the following passage:1 “Did that illustrious citizen, the pontifex maximus, Publius Scipio,
acting merely in his private capacity, kill Tiberius
Gracchus when he introduced but slight changes
for the worse that did not seriously impair the
constitution of the state, and shall we as consuls
suffer Catiline to live, whose aim was to lay waste
the whole world with fire and sword?”
1 Cat. i. i. 3. Phil. ii. xxv. 63.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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