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pr.18
or he may desire to dispel some charge that is irrelevant to the case as in the passage of the speech for Rabirius Postumus, X. 28. The charge in question was that Rabirius had worn the Greek pallium instead of the Roman toga. But as an official of the king he was forced to wear Greek dress. which runs as follows: For when he came to Alexandria, gentlemen, the only means of saving his money which the king suggested to Postumus was that he should take charge of the royal household and act as a kind of steward. Or the orator may desire to heighten the effect of his charges, as Cicero Verr. v. 10. does in his description of the journey of Verres.
pr.19
Sometimes a fictitious statement is employed either to stir the emotions of the judges, as in that passage of the proo Roscio Amerino xxii. 60. dealing with Chrysogonus to which I referred just recently, or to entertain them with a show of wit, as in the passage of the pro Cluentio xx. 57 sqq. describing the brothers Caepasius: sometimes again a digression may be introduced to add beauty to the speech, as in the passage about Proserpine in the Verrines, IV. 48. The words quoted do not occur in our MSS of Cicero. beginning It was here that a mother is once said to have sought her daughter. All these examples serve to show that he who denies a charge may not necessarily refrain from stating, but may actually state that very fact which he denies.
