[19]
On the other hand, he
places the various parts in the regular order in the
following instance: “How can it be unjust to kill a
robber who lies in wait for his victim?”1 Next comes
the reason: “What is the object of our escorts and
our swords?” Last comes the conclusion resulting
from the major premise and the reason: “Which we
certainly should not be permitted to have, if we
were absolutely forbidden to use them.”
[p. 361]
1 ib. iv. 10.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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