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- Assigning roles among or specifying the duties of a list of people,
sometimes accompanied by a conclusion.
- Sometimes this term is simply a synonym for diaeresis
or merismus, which are more general
figures involving division.
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The prosecutor's
job is to bring charges; the defence lawyer's, to answer and downplay
these; the witness, to state truthfully what has been seen or heard, the
judge, to keep all these three doing what they ought. To allow a witness
to make accusations only confuses the role of a prosecutor with those
of a witness... |
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Primary sources
Cicero De Inv.
1.22.32 |
