The third kind of proof, which is drawn into
the service of the case from without, is styled a
παράδειγμα by the Greeks, who apply the term to all
comparisons of like with like, but more especially
to historical parallels. Roman writers have for the
most part preferred to give the name of comparison
to that which the Greeks style παραβολή, while they
translate παράδειγμα by example, although this
latter involves comparison, while the former is of
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the nature of an example.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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