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Thus we
may feign repentance for what we have said, as in
the pro Caelio,1 where Cicero says, “But why did I
introduce so respectable a character?” Or we may
use some common phrase, such as, “I didn't mean
to say that.”2 Or we may pretend that we are
searching for what we should say, as in the phrases,
“What else is there?” or “Have I left anything
out?” Or we may pretend to discover something
suggested by the context, as when Cicero3 says, “One
more charge, too, of this sort still remains for me to
deal with,” or “One thing suggests another.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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