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Again, in antitheses and comparisons the first words of alternate phrases are
frequently repeated to produce correspondence,
which was my reason for saying a little while back1
that this device came under the present topic rather
than that which I was then discussing. “You pass
wakeful nights that you may be able to reply to
your clients; he that he and his army may arrive
betimes at their destination. You are roused by
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cockcrow, he by the bugle's reveillé. You draw up
your legal pleas, he sets the battle in array. You
are on the watch that your clients be not taken at a
disadvantage, he that cities or camps be not so
taken.”
1 IX. ii. 100. The passage is from pro Murena, ix. 22.
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