Kitap 7
2.16
But when quantity is considered in reference to punishment or reward, it is determined by the quality of the act, and therefore in my opinion comes under the qualitative basis, as also does quantity which is used with reference to number by the Greeks, who distinguish between ποσότης and πηλικότης ποσότης = quantity with reference to number; πηλικότης = quantity with reference to magnitude. : we, however, have only one name for the two.
2.17
In the last resort we may plead for mercy, a though most writers deny that this is ever admissible in the courts. Pro Lig. X. 30. Indeed Cicero himself seems to support this view in his defence of Quintus Ligarius where he says, I have pleaded many causes, Caesar, some of them even in association with yourself, so long as your political ambitions prevented you from abandoning the bar, but never have I pleaded in words such as these, ' Forgive him, gentlemen, he erred, he made a slip, he did not think that it mattered, he will never do it again,' and so on.
