[7]
to go
outside these physical speculations, whether the
Trojan or the Peloponnesian war was the greatest,
what was the nature of the shield of Achilles, or
whether there was more than one Hercules.
In forensic cases, however, which consist of
accusation and defence, there is one kind of conjecture by which we enquire both about an act
and about its author. This sometimes treats the two
questions together, as, for example, when both the
act and the identity of the author are denied, and
sometimes separately, as when the first enquiry,
whether the act was committed, is followed by a
second, where, the act being admitted, the question
is by whom it was committed.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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