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He even includes partition, proposition,
division and affinity between two separate things,
by which latter he means that two things
apparently different signify the same: for example,
not only the man who murders another by administering a deadly draught is to be regarded as
a poisoner, but also the man who deprives another
of his wits by giving him some drug, a point which
depends on definition.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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