[3]
For
it will often be expedient for the parties to place
different points first; otherwise the pleading would
always be determined by the good pleasure of the
prosecution. Finally, in a case of mutual accusation,1
where both parties have to defend themselves before
accusing their antagonist, the order of everything
must necessarily be different. I shall therefore set
forth the method adopted by myself, about which I
have never made any mystery: it is the result in
part of instruction received from others, in part of
my own reasoning.
1 cp. III. x. 4.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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