Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, chapter 10, section 84

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[84] “Ah! would that never there in Pelion's grove,” as though her misery or guilt were due to the fact that there

“The beams of fir had fallen to the ground”;

or I might cite the words addressed by Philoctetes to Paris,¹

“Hadst thou been other than thou art, then I
Had ne'er been plunged in woe.
”

[p. 249] By tracing back causes on lines such as these we may arrive anywhere.

1 From the Philoctetes of Accius, Ribbeck fr. 178.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.

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