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Theses on the other hand are concerned with
the comparison of things and involve questions such
as “Which is preferable, town or country life?”
or “Which deserves the greatest praise, the lawyer
or the soldier?” These provide the most attractive
and copious practice in the art of speaking, and are
most useful whether we have an eye to the duties
of deliberative oratory or the arguments of the
courts. For instance Cicero in his pro Murena1 deals
very fully with the second of the two problems
mentioned above.
1 Pro Mur. ix. 21 sqq.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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