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cannot even agree with those who hold that laudalory subjects are concerned with the question of
what is honourable, deliberative with the question of
what is expedient, and forensic with tie question of
what is just: the division thus made is easy and
neat rather than true: for all three kinds rely on
the mutual assistance of the other. For we deal
with justice and expediency in punegyric and with
honour in (deliberations, while you will rarely find a
forensic case, in part of which at any rate something
of those questions just mentioned is not to be found.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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