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Sed tum est necessaria illa summa connexio, cum intervenit ratio
longior; alioqui sufficient intentio ac ratio: silent
enim leges inter arma nec se expectari iubent, cum
ei, qui exspectare velit, ante iniusta poena luenda sit quam
iusta repetenda. ideoque id enthymema, quod est
ex consequentibus, rationi simile dixerunt. Sed et
singula, interimque recte, ponuntur, ut ipsum illud
silent leges inter arma;
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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