Book 5
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Further arguments drawn from place may serve to secure approval or the reverse. Ajax for instance in Ovid Met. xiii. 5. Ajax had saved the ships from being burned by the Trojans. The dispute as to whether the arms of Achilles should be awarded to him or to Ulysses is being tried there. Ajax's argument is, Can you refuse me my due reward on the very spot where I saved you from disaster? says:— What! do we plead our cause before the ships? And is Ulysses there preferred to me? Again one of the many charges brought against Milo was that he killed Clodius on the monument of his ancestors. pro Ail. vii. 17. i.e. on the Appian Way constructed by one of Clodius' ancestors.
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Such arguments may also carry weight in deliberative oratory, as may those drawn from time, which I shall now proceed to discuss. Time may, as I have said elsewhere, III. vi. 25. be understood in two different senses, general and special. The first sense is seen in words and phrases such as now, formerly, in the reign of Alexander, in the days of the siege of Troy, and whenever we speak of past, present or future. The second sense occurs when we speak either of definite periods of time such as in summer, in winter, by night, by day, or of fortuitous periods such as in time of pestilence, in time of war, during a banquet.
