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a perfectly ordinary circumstance!” Does
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not the orator employ a process of reasoning to
enable the audience to infer how great the implied
crime must be when such actions were but humane
and ordinary in comparison? So, again, one thing
may be magnified by allusion to another: the valour
of Scipio is magnified by extolling the fame of
Hannibal as a general, and we are asked to marvel
at the courage of the Germans and the Gauls in
order to enhance the glory of Gaius Caesar.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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