Book 9
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He calls it προσαπόδοσις and states The subj. servetur seems to indicate indirect speech. that strictly it applies to a number of propositions, since the reason is either attached to each proposition separately, as in the following passage from Gaius Antonius: Elected consul with Cicero for 63 B.C. But I do not fear him as an accuser, for I am innocent; I do not dread him as a rival candidate, for I am Antonius; I do not expect to see him consul, for he is Cicero ;
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or, after two or three propositions have been stated, the reasons for them may be given continuously in the same order, as for example in the words that Brutus uses of Gnaeus Pompeius: For it is better to rule no man than to be the slave to any man: since one may live with honour without ruling, whereas life is no life for the slave.
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But a number of reasons may also be assigned for one statement, as in the lines of Virgil: Georg. i. 86. Rhoades' translation. Whether that earth there from some hidden strength And fattening food derives, or that the tire Bakes every blemish out, etc. Or that the heat unlocks new passages. . . . Or that it hardens more, etc. As to what Cicero means by reference,
