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But whether the case is
one of mutual accusation, or the accused throws
the guilt upon his opponent without making any
formal accusation (as Roscius1 did without indicting
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his accusers), or the responsibility for the deed be
placed on the victims themselves, whom we allege
to have perished by their own hand, the arguments
for both sides of the case will be compared in
exactly the same way as in cases of mutual accusation.
1 Roscius Amerinus, accused of parricide and defended by Cicero.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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