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Moreover
cause seems to spring from cause, or as the Greeks say
αἴτιον ἐξ αἰτίον as will be seen from the following:—
Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon, because he had
sacrificed their daughter and brought home a captive
woman as his paramour. The same authors think
that there may be several lines of defence to one
question: for instance Orestes may urge that he
killed his mother because driven to do so by oracles.
But the number of points for the decision of the judge
will be the same as the number of alleged motives for
the deed: in this case it will be whether he ought to
have obeyed the oracles.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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