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[57] infirmam refutationem. nam, quod iustitia est, utique virtus est; quod non est iustitia, potest esse virtus, si est fortitudo, constantia, continentia. nunquam itaque tolletur a specie genus, nisi ut omnes species, quae sunt generi subiectae, removeantur, hoc modo, quod nec rationale nec morale est neque animal, [p. 232] homo non est.1

1 quod neque immortale nec mortale est animal non est (and the like) MSS.: the text gives the conjecture of Halm.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.

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