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But while examples may at times, as in the last
instance, apply in their entirety, at times we shall
argue from the greater to the less or from the less
to the greater. “Cities have been overthrown by
the violation of the marriage bond. What punishment then will meet the case of adultery?” “Fluteplayers have been recalled by the state to the city
which they had left. How much more then is it
just that leading citizens who have rendered good
service to their country should be recalled from
that exile to which they have been driven by envy.”1
1 cp. Liv. ix. 30. The flute-players employed in public worship migrated to Tibur because deprived of an oldestablished privilege, but were brought back by stratagem, after their hosts had made them drunk.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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