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First Oration of Cicero Against Catiline

Note 1 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE

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§ 17.— 1: servi—arbitraris: a fine example of the argument a fortiori. The Latins call this amplificatio (Quint. 8, 4, 9), the Greeks ἐνθύμημα, a rhetorical conclusion, drawn from opposites.

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