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So far all our questions have been derived from
two of the persons involved.1 With regard to the
third, this can give rise to no question, as there is
no dispute about his portion of the inheritance.
Still the time is not yet come to relax our
efforts: for so far all the arguments might have
been used even if the father had not been recalled
from exile. But we must not betake ourselves
at once to the obvious point that he was recalled
by the agency of the uneducated son. A little
ingenuity will lead us to look further a field:
for as species comes after genus, so genus precedes
1 i. e. the father and the uneducated son.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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