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All controversies
may be divided
into 2 pts relative
to things definite
to things indef<hi rend="underline">e
Ex. defin. is it not
better for me to
exchange prisoners
with the Karthagns
2. indef. what in
is to be done with
the captives.
The perfectn of
is to embrace as
a field as
possible
Promisse servande
non fuit si plus
tibi noccant,
quam illi prossint
cui promisseris
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Cic. in his
descrptn of a
orator does not
take for any
example any
one really
existing but
pictures one in
his imagination
as the painter
does who in
painting it must
their most
beautiful figures
do not copy
from any thing
really existing
in nature but
something that
you picture in
your own imagination
Antonius
tho' perhaps heard
many
men yet he had
never heard one
really eloqut
It was principally
owing to the good
only refined
public that Demos.
had to attend to
that he succeeded
surpassed
all the Rom. errors
in eloquence.
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to be employd
by an Orat to persuade
his
To speak to passions
of the audors of whh
are
To endeavour to captivate
it an audience by a brilliant
points
out the
yrs wd be
in giving
appropriate and
of the & on yr coutry
clemency in giving
a decisn on the
prayed for.
An accuser shd
conclude with expressng
of great bitterness
accused insisting
long upon the evidence
& decrees of the Senate
in his favor.
Throughout the whole
speech but more
particularly tods its conclusn
expression need
tending to excite
passions in yr audience
memorial to yr
accused.
In favor of the accused
the benevolt affections
of yr audience are to
be endeavoured to be
calculated.
circumstances
are to be
are to be weakened.
Circumstances wholly
are to
be by in .
1 - by adducing extenuative
circumstances
2 - by endeavouring to
render them observant
3 - by digressions
to disguise them
4 - if wholly
-able to be passed by
in silence.
5 - by appealing to yr
compassion of yr
Judges
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Every in yr adversaries
argt is to be absolutely denied
if it can possible be done
or to be endeavoured to
be refuted.
Every thing dout
Doubtful things are
to be asserted as certain
Things totally false
are to be asserted as
true if they are not
too much exposed
to detection
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