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“You killed
your wife, though you were an adulterer yourself. I
should loathe you even if you had only divorced her.”
Here we have a division. “Do you wish me to prove
that a love-philtre is a poison? The man would still
be living, if he had not drunk it.” This is an
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argument. There are, moreover, a number of speakers
who not merely deliver many such epigrams, but
utter everything as if it were an epigram.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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