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There is also another type of conjectural case
which, though it involves two questions, is different
from cases of mutual accusation; such cases are concerned with rewards and may be illustrated by the
following controversial theme. “A tyrant, suspecting that his physician had given him poison, tortured
him and, since he persisted in denying that he had
done so, sent for a second physician. The latter
asserted that poison had been administered, but
that he would provide an antidote; he gave him a
draught: the tyrant drank it and died. Both
physicians claim a reward for slaying the tyrant.”
Now just as in cases of mutual accusation where each
party shifts the guilt to his opponent, so in this
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case we compare the characters, motives, means,
opportunities, instruments and evidence of the
persons who claim the reward.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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