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and further, whether he could
have done the deed at some other time and in some
other way, or with greater ease or security, as Cicero
says in the pro Milone,1 where he mentions the
numerous occasions when his client could have killed
Clodius with impunity. There is also the question
why the accused should have chosen that particular
place or time or means for the commission of the
crime, a topic to which Cicero gives a thorough
treatment in the same passage;
1 c. xiv. sqq.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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