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Why should we
not try asking whether this means that he is to be
disinherited, whatever the character of the father
for whom he failed to appear? Such a course is
often adopted in those controversial themes in
which we demand that sons who fail to maintain
their parents should be cast into prison: take for
example the case of the mother who gave evidence
against her son when accused of being an alien, or
of the father who sold his son to a procurer. What,
then, is there in the present case that we lay hold of
as regards the character of the father?
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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