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 74 THE ARTE OR CRAFTE OF RHETHORYKE

cyon / and dothe bryefly f hewe wherin the cotrouerfy dothe ftande / or what thynges 1 fhalbe fpoke^ of in the oracion. This diuifion is deuyded into feiunction and diftribucion.

Seiunction is whan we fhewe wherin our aduerfaries and we agre / and what it is / wherupon we ftryue. As they that pledyd Clodius caufe agaynfte Milo / myght on this maner haue vied feiunction. That Milo flewe Clodius : our aduerfaries can [D vii b] nat denaye / but whether he myght fo do lawfully or nat / is our controuerfy. Diftribucion is the propoficion wherein we declare of what thynges we wyll fpeke / of whiche yf we propofe howe many they be / it is called enumeracion / but yf we do nat expreffe the nombre / it is called expoficion.

Example of bothe is had in the oracion that Tully made to the people that Pompeyus myght be made chyefe capytayne of the warres agaynfte Mithridates and Tigranes / where after the preface and narracyon he maketh his propofycyon by expofycyon thus.

Fyrfte I thynke it expedyent to fpeke of the nature & kynde of this warre / and after that of the greatnes thereof / and then to fhewe howe an hede or chyefe capytayne of any army fhulde be chofen.

Whiche lafte membre of his expofycyon he agayne diftributeth into foure partes thtts as foloweth.

Truley 2 this is myne opynyon / that he whiche fhall be a gou- erner of an hooft / ought to haue thefe foure pr^pertyes in hym. The fyrfte is / that he haue perfyte knowlege of all fuche thynges as longeth to warre. The feconde is that he be a man of' his handes. The thyrde that he be a maw of fuche auctority : that his dignity maye [D viii a] caufe his fouldiers to haue hym in reuerence & awe. The fourth is that he be fortunate & lucky in all thyng^y that he goeth about.

Tully in the oraciow for Milo propofeth all onely fhewynge wherin the controuerfy of the plee dyd ftande on thys maner as 3 follyweth. 3

Is there any thynge els that muft be tryed & iudged in this caufe faue this : whether of them bothe beganne the fraye & entended to murder the tother ? No surely. So that yf it can be founden that Milo went about to diftroye Clodius / than he be punyffhed ther- fore accordyngly. But yf it can be proued that Clodius was the

1 B. thinges. 2 B. Truely. ^ Added in B.

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