Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 5.13.5

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[5] which are not in any sense a method of actual defence, can rarely be used, and only before judges who are not limited to some precise form of verdict. ¹ Even those speeches delivered before Gaius Caesar ² and the triumvirs on behalf of members of the opposite party, although they do employ such pleas for mercy, also make use of the ordinary methods of defence. For I think you will agree with me that the following passage contains arguments of a strongly defensive character ³ :

What was our object, Tubero, save that we might have the power that Caesar has now

But if,

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

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[5] deprecatio quidem, quae est sine ulla specie defensionis, rara admodum et apud eos solos indices, qui nulla certa pronuntiandi forma tenentur. quamquam illae quoque apud C. Caesarem et triumuiros pro diuersarum partium hominibus actiones, etiamsi precibus utuntur, adhibent tamen patrocinia; nisi hoc non fortissime defendentis est dicere, quid aliud egimus, Tubero, nisi ut,

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1. e. g. in the emperor's court as opposed to the quaestiones perpetuae or civil actions.

2. As in the pro Ligario and pro Deiotaro pleaded in Caesar's house. It is not known what cases were tried before the (2nd) triumvirate.

3. Cic. pro Lig. iv. 10

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 5.13.5

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