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Sin causam afferet is, qui a sententia stabit, pri-
mum erit contra dicendum: quam absurdum non
negare contra legem fecisse, sed, quare fecerit, cau-
sam aliquam invenire; deinde conversa esse omnia:
ante solitos esse accusatores iudicibus persuadere, ad-
finem esse alicuius culpae eum, qui accusaretur, cau-
sam proferre, quae eum ad peccandum impulisset;—
Rhetorici libri duo qui vocantur de inventione. M. Tullius Cicero. Eduard Stroebel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1915. Keyboarding.
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