[55]
since it repeats what
has already been said and, before passing to a new
point, dwells on those which precede. I will translate a very famous instance from the Greek.1 “I
did not say this, without making a formal proposal
to that effect, I did not make that proposal without
undertaking the embassy, nor undertake the embassy
without persuading the Thebans.”
1 Demosth. de Cor. 179.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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