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Although this is at times
a useful device, some of our declaimers employ it
on practically every occasion, on the assumption
that one should always start with the order thus
reversed.
The adherents of Apollodorus reject the view
stated above to the effect that there are only three
respects in which the mind of the judge requires to
be prepared, and enumerate many others, relating to
the character of the judge, to opinions regarding
matters which though outside the case have still
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some bearing on it, to the opinion current as to the
case itself, and so on ad infinitum: to these they add
others relating to the elements of which every
dispute is composed, such as persons, deeds, words,
motives, time and place, occasions and the like.
Such views are, I admit, perfectly correct,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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