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ideoque eam non orationis totius
partem unam esse credendum est sed quaestionum
etiam singularum. quae est enim quaestio, in qua
non promittere possit orator, quid primo, quid
secundo, quid tertio sit loco dicturus? quod est
proprium partitionis. quam ergo ridiculum est,
quaestionem quidem speciem esse probationis, partitionem autem, quae sit species quaestionis, partem
totius orationis vocari?
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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