Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler, 7.2.33

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[33] probi vero mores et anteactae vitae integritas nunquam non plurimum profuerint. si nihil obiicietur, patronus quidem in hoc vehementer incumbet, accusator autem ad praesentem quaestionem, de qua sola iudicium sit, cognitionem adligabit dicens neminem non aliquando coepisse peccare, nec per encaenia ¹ ducendum scelus primum.

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

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[33] Upright character, however, and the blamelessness of his past life are always of the utmost assistance to the accused. If no charge is made against his character, counsel for the defence will lay great stress on this fact, while the accuser will attempt to restrict the judge to the sole consideration of the actual issue which the court has to decide, and will say that there must always be a first step in crime and that a first offence is not to be regarded as the occasion for celebrating a feast in honour of the defendant's character.

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1. Eacaceia is a feast in honour of the dedication of a new temple or building. the phrase is strange, but there seems no possibility of plausible emendation. the word is rare and not likely to be corrupt. pro is the reading of the best MSS.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 7.2.33

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