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Again, there have
been cases where persons condemned for bribery
have indicted others for the same offence with a
view to recovering their lost position:1 for this
the schools provide a parallel in the theme where
a luxurious youth accuses his father of the same
offence. I do not see how this can be done with
decorum unless we succeed in discovering some
difference between the two cases, such as character,
age, motives, circumstances of time and place or
intention.
1 See v. x. 108 note and with reference to pro Clu. xxxvi. 98.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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