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The peroration
also provides freer opportunities for exciting the
passions of jealousy, hatred or anger. As regards the
circumstances likely to excite such feelings in the
judge, jealousy will be produced by the influence of
the accused, hatred by the disgraceful nature of his
conduct, and anger by his disrespectful attitude to
the court, if, for instance, he be contumacious,
arrogant or studiously indifferent: such anger may be
aroused not merely by specific acts or words, but by
his looks, bearing and manner. In this connexion
the remark made by the accuser of Cossutianus
Capito1 in my young days was regarded with great
approval: the words used were Greek, but may be
translated thus:—“You blush to fear even Caesar.”
1 See Tac. Ann. xiii. 33. Cossutianus was condemned for extortion in his province. His accuser is not known.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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