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The best kind of preparatory remarks are
those which cannot be recognised as such: Cicero,1
for instance, is extraordinarily happy in the way he
mentions in advance everything that shows that
Clodius lay in wait for Milo and not Milo for Clodius.
The most effective stroke of all is his cunning feint
of simplicity: “Milo, on the other hand, having
been in the senate all day till the house rose, went
home, changed his shoes and clothes, and waited for
a short time, while his wife was getting ready, as is
the way with women.”
1 pro Mil. x. 28.
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