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Consequently it was not
merely in cases where respect for persons prevented
direct speaking (a circumstance which as a rule calls
for caution rather than figures) that they would
have recourse to figurative methods, but they made
room for them even under circumstances where they
were useless or morally inadmissible, as for example
in a case where a father, who had secretly slain his
son whom he suspected of incest with his mother,
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and was accused of ill-treating his wife, was made to
bring indirect insinuations against his wife.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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