Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 5.11.9

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[9] But while examples may at times, as in the last instance, apply in their entirety, at times we shall argue from the greater to the less or from the less to the greater.

Cities have been overthrown by the violation of the marriage bond. What punishment then will meet the case of adultery?

Fluteplayers have been recalled by the state to the city which they had left. How much more then is it just that leading citizens who have rendered good service to their country should be recalled from that exile to which they have been driven by envy.

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

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[9] sed ut sunt exempla interim tota similia ut hoc proximum, sic interim ex maioribus ad minora, ex minoribus ad maiora ducuntur. urbes violata propter matrimonia eversae sunt; quid fieri adultero par est? tibicines , cum ab urbe discessissent, publice revocati sunt; quanto magis principes civitatis viri et bene de republica meriti, cum invidiae cesserint, ab exilio reducendi?

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1. cp. Liv. ix. 30. The flute-players employed in public worship migrated to Tibur because deprived of an oldestablished privilege, but were brought back by stratagem, after their hosts had made them drunk.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 5.11.9

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