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which consists in the diversion of
our address from the judge, is wonderfully stirring,
whether we attack our adversary as in the passage,
“What was that sword of yours doing, Tubero, in
the field of Pharsalus?”1 or turn to make some invocation such as, “For I appeal to you, hills and groves
of Alba,”2 or to entreaty that will bring odium on
our opponents, as in the cry, “O Porcian and Sempronian laws.”3
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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