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“All that concerns the case which you are supporting must be clearly brought forward; what concerns your own feelings, though you may have had just provocation, should be left unsaid.”
- Date
- 2nd century CE
Meaning of “All that concerns the case which you are…”
Marcus separates relevant argument from personal resentment: a case can be stated clearly without allowing justified anger or injured feeling to become the substance of the presentation.
Where does it come from?
Project Gutenberg #2680, correspondence appendix, Ad M. Caes. iii. 5. Marcus replies after Fronto agrees to moderate his prosecution in the Herodes Atticus dispute. The sentence concerns forensic restraint and personal feeling in that historical exchange.
