Institutio Oratoria
Quintilian
Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria, Volume 1-4. Butler, Harold Edgeworth, translator. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd., 1920-1922.
or, after two or three propositions have been stated, the reasons for them may be given continuously in the same order, as for example in the
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words that Brutus uses of Gnaeus Pompeius: For it is better to rule no man than to be the slave to any man: since one may live with honour without ruling, whereas life is no life for the slave.
But a number of reasons may also be assigned for one statement, as in the lines of Virgil: [*](Georg. i. 86. Rhoades' translation. )
As to what Cicero means by reference,
- Whether that earth there from some hidden strength
- And fattening food derives, or that the tire
- Bakes every blemish out, etc.
- Or that the heat unlocks new passages. . . .
- Or that it hardens more, etc.