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[2] It may on the other hand be drawn from
incompatibles, in which case the proof will be much stronger; indeed some restrict the title of
enthymeme
1
to this form of argument. The following passage from the
pro Milone
2
of Cicero will provide a parallel:
You are then sitting there to avenge the death of a man whom you would refuse to restore to life, even if you thought it within your power to do so.
Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.
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