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Consequently in the exordium
we shall vary our structure to suit the thought.
For I cannot agree with Celsus, when he would
impose a single stereotyped form upon the exordium
and asserts that the best example of the structure
required for this purpose is to be found in Asinius:
e. g., si, Caesar, ex omnibus mortalibus, qui sunt ac
fuerunt, posset huic causae disceptator legi, non quisquam
te potius optandus nobis fuit.1
1 “If, Caesar, one man of all that are or have ever been could be chosen to try this case, there is none whom we could have preferred to you.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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