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The majority of writers
consider that there are five kinds of causes, the
honourable, the mean, the doubtful or ambiguous, the
extraordinary and the obscure, or as they are called in
Greek, ἔνδοξον, ἄδοξον, ἀμφίδοξον, παράδοξον and
δυσπαρακολούθητον. To these some would add a sixth,
the scandalous, which some again include under the
heading of the mean, others under the extraordinary.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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