Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 5.10.41

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[41] Further arguments drawn from place may serve to secure approval or the reverse. Ajax for instance in Ovid ¹ says:—

What! do we plead our cause before the ships?

And is Ulysses there preferred to me?

Again one of the many charges brought against Milo was that he killed Clodius on the monument of his ancestors. ²

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[41] ad commendationem quoque et invidiam valet. nam et Aiax apud Ovidium: ante rates, inquit, agimus causam, et mecum confertur Ulixes? et Miloni inter cetera obiectum est, quod Clodius in monumentis ab eo maiorum suorum esset occisus.

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1. Met. xiii. 5. Ajax had saved the ships from being burned by the Trojans. The dispute as to whether the arms of Achilles should be awarded to him or to Ulysses is being tried there. Ajax's argument is,

Can you refuse me my due reward on the very spot where I saved you from disaster?

2. pro Ail. vii. 17. i.e. on the Appian Way constructed by one of Clodius' ancestors.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 5.10.41

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