[2]
The nature of the main question
is sometimes sufficiently clear without any proposition,
especially if the statement of facts ends exactly where
the question begins. Consequently the recapitulation generally employed in the case of arguments is
sometimes placed immediately after the statement
of facts. “The affair took place, as I have described,
gentlemen: he that laid the ambush was defeated,
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violence was conquered by violence, or rather I
should say audacity was crushed by valour.”1
1 pro Mil. xi. 30.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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