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Propositions may be single, double or manifold:
this is due to more than one reason. For several
charges may be combined, as when Socrates was
accused of corrupting the youth and of introducing
new superstitions; while single propositions may be
made up of a number of arguments, as for instance
when Aeschines is accused of misconduct as an
ambassador on the ground that he lied, failed to
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carry out his instructions, wasted time and accepted
bribes.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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