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For when Cicero in his defence
for Ligarius says, “After war had begun, Caesar,
and was well on its way to a conclusion, I deliberately,
of my own free will and under no compulsion, joined
the forces of your opponents,”1 he has in his mind
something more than a desire to serve the interests
of Ligarius, for there is no better way of praising
the clemency of the victor.
1 iii. 7.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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