Institutio Oratoria

he says,

Not only not to war, but to a country where there was no thought of war.

And when the sense would have been sufficiently clear had he said no more than

Quintus Ligarius would not suffer himself to be entangled in any transaction,

[*](pro Lig. i. 3. ) he adds

for he had his eyes fixed on home and wished to return to his own people.

Thus he made what he stated credible by giving a reason for it and at the same time coloured it with emotion.

I am therefore all the more surprised at those who hold that there should be no appeal to the emotions in the statement of facts. If they were to say

Such appeals should be brief and not on the scale on which they are employed in tile peroration,

I should agree with them; for it is important that the statement should be expeditious. But why, while I am instructing the judge, should I refuse to move him as well?