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est argumentorum locus ex similibus: si continentia virtus, utique et abstinentia; fidem debet tutor, et
procurator. hoc est ex eo genere, quod ἐπαγωγήν
Graeci vocant, Cicero inductionem. Ex dissimilibus:
Non, si laetitia bonum, et voluptas; Non, quod mulieri,
idem pupillo. Ex contrariis: frugalitas bonum, luxuria
enim malum; Si malorum causa bellum est, erit emendatio pax; Si veniam meretur, qui inprudens nocuit, non
meretur praemium, qui imprudens profuit.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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