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. )

  1. Whether that earth there from some hidden strength
  2. And fattening food derives, or that the tire
  3. Bakes every blemish out, etc.
  4. Or that the heat unlocks new passages. . . .
  5. Or that it hardens more, etc.
As to what Cicero means by reference,