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quid proderunt argumentorum loci, nisi haec prius videro,
nihil eum egisse donando, non potuisse donare, non
donasse? et prima quidem actio facilis ac favorabilis repetentium iure quod vi sit ablatum; sed hinc
aspera et uehemens quaestio exoritur de iure belli,
dicentibus Thessalis, hoc regna, populos, fines gentium atque urbium contineri.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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