Institutio Oratoria

Or again they may be introduced without such circumstances, as in the passage beginning

For Quintus Ligarius etc.

[*](pro Lig. i. 2. ) Often, too, we may commence with a fact as Cicero does in the pro Tullio [*](pro Tull. vi. 14. ) :

Marcus Tullius has a farm which he inherited from his father in the territory of Thurium,

or Demosthenes in the speech in defence of Ctesiphonl, [*](§ 18.) —

On the outbreak of the Phocian war.

As regards the conclusion of the statement of facts, there is a controversy with those who would have the statement end where the issue to be determined begins. Here is an example.

After these events the praetor Publius Dolabella issued an interdict in the usual form dealing with rioting and employment of armed men, ordering, without any exception, that Aebutius should restore the property from which he had ejected Caecina. He stated that he had done so. A sum of money was deposited. It is for you to decide to whom this money is to go.

[*]( Cic. pro Caec. viii. 23. ) This rule can always be observed by the prosecutor, but not always by the defendant.