Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 6.3.69

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[69] He also employed allegory in the witticism that he was fond of making about Marcus Caelius, who was better at bringing charges than at defending his client against them, to the effect that he had a good right hand, but a weak left. ¹ As an example of the use of emphasis I may quote the jest of Aulus Villius, that Tuccius was killed by his sword falling upon him. ²

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

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[69] idem per allegorian M. Caelium, melius obiicientem crimina quam defendentem, bonam dextram, malam sinistram habere dicebat. emphasi A. Villius dixit, ferrum in Tuccium incidisse.

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1. The right being the sword arm, the left carrying the shield.

2. Tuccius was clearly a coward who committed suicide. Villius suggested that he would never have had the courage to fall upon his sword, and that therefore the sword must have fallen on him.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 6.3.69

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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