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Or again they may be introduced without such circumstances, as in the
passage beginning “For Quintus Ligarius etc.”1
Often, too, we may commence with a fact as Cicero
does in the pro Tullio2: “Marcus Tullius has a farm
which he inherited from his father in the territory
of Thurium,” or Demosthenes in the speech in defence of Ctesiphonl,3—“On the outbreak of the
Phocian war.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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