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At in eo,
qui verum invitus dicturus est, prima felicitas interrogantis extorquere quod is noluerit. hoc non alio
modo fieri potest quam longius interrogatione repetita.
respondebit enim, quae nocere causae non
[p. 178]
arbitrabitur; ex pluribus deinde, quae confessus erit, eo
perducetur ut quod dicere non vult negare non possit.
nam,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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