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“Gaius Varenus, he who was killed
by the slaves of Ancharius—I beg you, gentlemen,
to give me your best attention at this point.”
Further if the case involves a number of different
matters, each section must be prefaced with a short
introduction, such as “Listen now to what follows,”
or “I now pass to the next point.” Even in the
proof there are many passages which perform the
same function as an exordium, such as the passage in
the pro Cluentio1 where Cicero introduces an attack
on the censors and in the pro Murena2 when he
apologises to Servius. But the practice is too
common to need illustration.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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