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probos quosdam et verecundos
non aspere incessere profuit; nam saepe, qui adversus insectantem pugnassent, modestia mitigantur.
omnis autem interrogatio aut in causa est aut extra
causam. In causa, sicut accusatori praecepimus,
[p. 184]
patronus quoque altius et unde nihil suspecti sit
repetita percontatione, priora sequentibus applicando
saepe eo perducit homines, ut invitis quod prosit
extorqueat.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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