Kitap 2
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Thus Bassus. But some others think that the divinatio is so called because, while prosecutor and defendant are two things that are, as it were, related and connected, so that neither can exist without the other, yet in this form of trial, while there is already a defendant, there is as yet no prosecutor, and therefore the factor which is still lacking and unknown—namely, what man is to be the prosecutor—must be supplied by divination.
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How elegantly and clearly the philosopher Favorinus described the difference between the style of Plato and that of Lysias.
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FAVORINUS used to say of Plato and Lysias: If you take a single word from a discourse of Plato or change it, and do it with the utmost skill, you will nevertheless mar the elegance of his style; if you do the same to Lysias, you will obscure his meaning.
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On some words which Virgil is asserted to have used carelessly and negligently; and the answer to be made to those who bring this false charge.
