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Nor is this to be
wondered at, since the term is also in common use
among artists; hence the Vergilian phrase A mighty
argument.1 Again a work which deals with a number
of different themes is called “rich in argument.”
But the sense with which we are now concerned is
that which provides proof Celsus indeed treats
the terms, proof, indication, credibility, attempt,
simply as different names for the same things, in
which, to my thinking, he betrays a certain confusion of thought.
1 Aen. vii. 791, with Reference to the design on the shield of Turnus.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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