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depend on the fact that they are
transferred from one context to another Crispus,
in his defence of Spatale, whose lover had made her
his heir and then proceeded to die at the age
of eighteen, remarked: “What a marvellous fellow
to gratify his passion thus!”1
1 sibi indulsit would seen to mean his appointing S. his heir and then being kind enough to die so soon! But the point is uncertain.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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