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ut sunt autem tria tempora, ita ordo rerum tribus
momentis consertus est; habent enim omnia initium,
incrementum, summam, ut iurgium deinde pugna,
[p. 240]
tum1 caedes. est ergo hic quoque argumentorum
locus invicem probantium. nam et ex initiis summa
colligitur, quale est, Non possum togam praetextam
sperare, cum exordium pullum videam; et contra, non
dominationis causa Sullam arma sumpsisse,argumentum est dictatura deposita.
1 pugna, tum, supplied by Halm.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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