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This figure may also be effected solely by
change of cases, a proceeding which the Greeks call
πολύπτωτον It may also be produced in other ways,
as in the pro Cluentio:1 Quod autem tempus veneni dandi?
illo die? illa frequentia? per quem porro datum? unde
sumptum? quae porro interceptio poculi? cur non de
integro autem datum?
1 lx. 167. “But what was the time chosen for giving the poison? Was it on that day? Amid such a crowd? And who was selected to administer it? Where was it got? How was the cup intercepted? Why was it not given a second time?”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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