[56]
He was
condemned. But does the law apply only to those
cases where the father is acquitted? At first sight
the question is difficult. But let us not despair. It
is probable that the intention of the legislator was
that innocent parents should secure the support of
their children. But the uneducated son will be
ashamed to produce this argument, since he acknowledges that his father was innocent.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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