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Cicero, when he is about
to reproach Antony with his drunkenness and
vomiting, says,1 “You with such a throat, such
flanks, such burly strength in every limb of your
prize-fighter's body,” etc. What have his throat
and flanks to do with his drunkenness? The
reference is far from pointless: for by looking at
them we are enabled to estimate the quantity of
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the wine which he drank at Hippias' wedding, and
was unable to carry or digest in spite of the fact
that his bodily strength was worthy of a prizefighter. Accordingly if, in such a case, one thing is
inferred from another, the term reasoning is neither
improper nor extraordinary, since it has been
applied on similar grounds to one of the bases.2
So, again,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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