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The following method may not merely be used with great effect,
but may even be badly missed when it is not employed. You gave me the money. Who counted it out?
Where did this occur and from what source did the money
come? You accuse me of poisoning. Where did I buy
the poison and from whom? What did I pay for it and
whom did I employ to administer it? Who was my
accomplice? Practically all these points are discussed
by Cicero in dealing with the charge of poisoning in
the pro Cluentio.1 This concludes my observations
upon inartificial proofs. I have stated them as briefly
as I could.
1 cp. IX. 167.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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