[4]
As
for digression (egressio, now more usually styled
excessus), if it lie outside the case, it cannot be part
of it, while, if it lie within it, it is merely an accessory or ornament of that portion of the case from
which digression is made. For if anything that lies
within the case is to be called part of it, why not
[p. 517]
call argument, comparison, commonplace, pathos, illustration parts of the case?
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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