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[11]
I went on to point out that in all forensic cases the
speech consists of five parts, the exordium designed
to conciliate the audience, the statement of facts
designed to instruct him, the proof which confirms
our own propositions, the refutation which overthrows
the arguments of our opponents, and the peroration
which either refreshes the memory of our hearers
or plays upon their emotions.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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