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Thirdly, there are times when the question
concerns things which are different in species, and
we ask whether two different things are to be called
by the same name, in spite of the fact that each has
a special name of its own: for example, is tile same
name applicable both to a love-potion and a poison?1
But in all disputes of this kind the question is
whether one thing is another thing as well, since
the name in doubt does without question apply to
something else. It is sacrilege to steal a sacred
object from a temple; is it also sacrilege to steal
private property from a temple? It is adultery to
lie with another man's wile in one's own house; is
it adultery to do so in a brothel? It is tyrannicide
to slay a tyrant; is it tyrannicide to force him to
slay himself?
1 cp. VIII. V. 31.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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