Institutio Oratoria

not content with raising imaginary objections, develop whole passages on such themes, saying that they know their opponents will say this and will proceed to argue thus and thus. I remember that Vibius Crispus in our own day disposed of this practice very neatly, for he was a humorous fellow with a very pretty wit:

I do not make those objections which you attribute to me,

he said,

for what use would it be to make them twice?