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I have therefore no hesitation in
calling the following forms of argument also consequential, although they argue from the past to the
future: some however divide them into two classes,
those concerned with action, as in the pro Oppio,
“How could he detain against their will those
whom he was unable to take to the province against
their will?” and those concerned with time, as in
the Verrines,1 “If the first of January puts an end
to the authority of the praetor's edict, why should
the commencement of its authority not likewise
date from the first of January?”
1 Verr. I. xlii. 109. The praetor on entering office on Jan. I issued an edict announcing the principles on which his rulings would be given. This edict was an interpretation of the law of Rome, and held good only during the praetor's year of office.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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