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But we may introduce not only imaginary sayings, but imaginary
writings as well, as is done by Asinius in his defence
of Liburnia: “Let my mother, who was the object
of my love and my delight, who lived for me and
gave me life twice in one day1 (and so on) inherit
nought of my property.” This is in itself a figure,
and is doubly so whenever, as in the present case,
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it imitates a document produced by the opposing
party.
1 The speech being lost, the allusion in bis—dedit is unintelligible.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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