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reliquae interrogandi sunt partes. qua in re
primum est nosse testem. nam timidus terreri,
stultus decipi, iracundus concitari, ambitiosus inflari
potest; prudens vero et constans vel tanquam inimicus et pervicax dimittendus statim vel non interrogatione, sed brevi interlocutione patroni refutandus
est aut aliquo, si continget, urbane dicto refrigerandus
aut, si quid in eius vitam dici poterit, infamia criminum destruendus.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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