Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 5.13.18

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[18] The accuser of Cornelius offers to produce witnesses to show that he read out the law when tribune ¹ : Cicero makes this argument superHuous by admitting it. Quintus Caecilius demands to be entrusted with the task of accusing Verres on the ground that he had been the latter's quaestor: Cicero actually makes this argument tell in his own favour. ²

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

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[18] testes in Cornelium accusator lecti a tribuno codicis pollicetur; facit hoc Cicero supervacuum, quia ipse fateatur. petit accusationem in Verrem Q. Caecilius, quod fuerat quaestor eius; ipsum Cicero ut pro se videretur effecit.

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1. cp. IV. ii. 13.

2. Cicero argues that since the relation between praetor and quaestor is almost that which should exist between father and son, a quaestor should not be allowed to prosecute his praetor.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 5.13.18

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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