Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler, 5.10.64

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[64] et ille quidem non iis exemplis utitur, quia scribens ad Trebatium ex iure ducere ea maluit; ego apertiora posui. propria vero ad coniecturae quoque pertinent partem: ut, quia proprium est boni recte facere, iracundi verbis aut manu male facere, facta haec ab ipsis ¹ esse credantur aut contra. nam ut quaedam in quibusdam utique sunt, ita quaedam in quibusdam ² utique non sunt: et ratio, quamvis sit ex diverso, eadem est.

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[64] since, as he was writing to Trebatius, ¹ he preferred to draw his examples from law. I have chosen my illustrations as being more obvious. Properties have relation to questions of fact as well; for instance, it is the property of a good man to act rightly, of an angry man to be violent in speech or action, and consequently we believe that such acts are committed by persons of the appropriate character, or not committed by persons of inappropriate character. For just as certain persons possess certain qualities, so certain others do not possess certain qualities, and the argument is of precisely the same nature, though from opposite premises.

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1. male facere, facta haec ab ipsis, supplied by Halm and Kayser.

2. utique sunt, ita quaedam in quibusdam, Iulius Victor: omitted by MSS.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 5.10.64

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