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alterum similitudinis
genus conlatione sumitur, cum una res uni, par pari com-
paratur hoc modo: Quem ad modum, si in urbe de finibus
controversia est, quia fines magis agrorum videntur esse
quam urbis1, finibus regendis adigere arbitrum non possis,
sic, si aqua pluvia in urbe nocet, quoniam res tota magis
agrorum est, aquae pluviae arcendae adigere arbitrum non
possis.
1 quia... urbis secl. Friedrich. Loco medetur Madvig Adv. Crit. ii. 192
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