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For as Cicero1 says,
the shorter form of digression may be effected in a
number of different ways. The following passages
will, however, suffice as examples: “Then Gaius
Varenus, that is, the Varenus who was killed by the
slaves of Ancharius:—I beg you, gentlemen, to give
careful attention to what I am about to say2;” the
second is from the pro Milone3: “Then he turned
on me that glance, which it was his wont to assume,
when he threatened all the world with every kind
of violence.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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