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At times, again, we may advance a parallel
to make something which we desire to exaggerate
seem greater than ever, as Cicero does in the pro
Cluentio,1 where, after telling a story of a woman
of Miletus who took a bribe from the reversionary
heirs to prevent the birth of her expected child,
lie cries, “How much greater is the punishment
deserved by Oppianicus for the same offence! For
that woman, by doing violence to her own body
did but torture herself, whereas he procured
the same result by applying violence and torture
to the body of another.”
1 cp. v. xiii. 24.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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