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And with what a light touch he deals with
Cato!1 He has the highest admiration for his
character and desires to show that the fact that in
certain respects it has become severe and callous is due
not to any personal fault, but to the influence of the
Stoic school of philosophy; in fact you would imagine
that they were engaged not in a forensic dispute,
but merely in some philosophical discussion.
1 Pro Muren. xxix. 60.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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