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Authority also may be drawn from external sources
to support a case. Those who follow the Greeks,
who call such arguments κρίσεις, style them judgments or adjudications, thereby referring not to
matters on which judicial sentence has been pronounced (for such decisions form examples or precedents), but to whatever may be regarded as
expressing the opinion of nations, peoples, philosophers, distinguished citizens, or illustrious poets.
Nay,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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