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at credibile est,
hoc eum velle. fortasse; dissimulet ergo, ut
efficiat. sed nobis (declamatoribus dico) quid
proderit hoc intellexisse, nisi dixerimus? ergo,
si vere ageretur, similiter consilium illud latens
prodidissemus? quid? si neque utique verum est,
et habere alias hic damnatus contradicendi causas
potest, vel quod legem conservandam putet, vel
quod nolit accusatori debere beneficium, vel (quod
ego maxime sequerer) ut innocentem se esse in
tormentis pertendat?
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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