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On the other hand, as opposed to this procedure
we may often give a rapid summary, suggest more
than is actually said, may express ourselves tersely
in short, clean-cut sentences and disparage, or, what
is much the same, mock our opponent in a manner
not inconsistent with the precepts given us by Caesar.1
Or we may employ digressions and then, after thus
delighting our audience, make a neat and elegant
return to our main theme. We may set forth in
advance what we propose to say, mark off the topics
already treated from those which are to follow,
return to our point, repeat it and draw our formal
[p. 365]
conclusions.”
1 de Or. ii. 261 sqq., 269 sqq. Iulius Caesar Strabo loq.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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