Institutio Oratoria

Further, it will often be found that the thread is broken or the seal tampered with or the signatures unsupported by witnesses. And unless you discover such facts at home, they will take you by surprise in court and trip you up, doing you more harm by forcing you to abandon them than they would have done had they never been promised you. There are also a number of points which the client regards as irrelevant to his case, which the advocate will be able to elicit, provided he go carefully through all the

dwelling places

of argument which I have already described. [*]( V. x. 20 sqq. i. e. sources from which arguments may be drawn. )