“Did I not see you, villain, snare a goatthe other replies:
Of Damon's?
”
“I vanquished him in song, and should he not
Pay me the prize, my due?
”
[13]
Again, the
answer may be of such a kind as to make defence
precede confession. For example, in the Eclogues1
of Virgil, when one shepherd asks:
1 Ecl. iii. 17 and 21.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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