[2]
In
dealing with this question I shall deliberately pass
over the divisions made by certain writers, who make
too many classes and err on the side of subtlety. For
[p. 51]
they demand an explanation dealing not only with the
facts of the case which is before the court, but with the
person involved (as in the sentence,1 “Marcus Lollius
Palicanus, a Picentine of humble birth, a man gifted
with loquacity rather than eloquence”) or of the
place where an incident occurred (as in the sentence2
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