[12]
As regards the foundation, I will put
[p. 529]
it in the words of Cicero1 himself:—“The foundation
is the strongest argument for the defence, as for
instance, if Orestes were ready to say that the disposition of his mother towards his father, himself and
his sisters, the kingdom, the reputation of the race
and the family were such that it was the peculiar duty
of her children to punish her.”
1 de Inv. l. c.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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