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Let us now turn to consider the “places” of arguments, although some hold that they are identical
with the topics which I have already discussed
above.1 But I do not use this term in its usual
acceptance, namely, commonplaces2 directed against
luxury, adultery, and the like, but in the sense of
the secret places where arguments reside, and from
which they must be drawn forth.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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