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at pro reo plerumque
gravissimum quidque primum movendum est, ne
illud spectans iudex reliquorum defensioni sit aversior. interim tamen et hoc mutabitur, si leviora
illa palam falsa erunt, gravissimi defensio difficilior,
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ut detracta prius accusatoribus fide aggrediamur
ultimum, iam iudicibus omnia vana esse credentibus.
opus erit tamen praefatione, qua et ratio reddatur
dilati criminis et promittatur defensio, ne id quod
non statim diluemus timere videamur.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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