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But fictitious suppositions are also exceedingly useful when we are concerned with the quality of an act pro Mur —. xxxix. 83. Cicero argues that Murena's election as consul is necessary to save the state from Catiline. If the jury now condemn him, they will be doing exactly what Catiline and his accomplices, now in arms in Etruria, would do if they could try him. : If Catiline could try this case assisted by a jury composed of those scoundrels whom he led out with him he would condemn Lucius Murena. It is useful also for amplification Phil. II. xxv. 63. This = vomiting. Cicero contimes who would not have thought it disgraceful. : If this had happened to you during dinner in the midst of your deep potations ; or again, Probably an allusion to Cat. i. 7, where Cicero makes the state reproach Catiline for his conduct. If the state could speak.
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Such in the main are the usual topics of proof as specified by teachers of rhetoric, but it is not sufficient to classify them generically in our instructions, since from each of them there arises an infinite number of arguments, while it is in the very nature of things impossible to deal with all their individual species. Those who have attempted to perform this latter task have exposed themselves in equal degree to two disadvantages, saying too much and yet failing to cover the whole ground.
