[110]
he says, “Not only not to war, but to a country
where there was no thought of war.” And when the
sense would have been sufficiently clear had he
[p. 111]
said no more than “Quintus Ligarius would not
suffer himself to be entangled in any transaction,”1
he adds “for he had his eyes fixed on home and
wished to return to his own people.” Thus he made
what he stated credible by giving a reason for it
and at the same time coloured it with emotion.
1 pro Lig. i. 3.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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