Rhetoric Day 70.1
The Résumé is defective if it does not include every point in the exact order in which it has been presented; if it does not come to a conclusion briefly; and if the summary does not leave something precise and stable, so as to make clear what the Proposition was, then what has been established by the Reason, by the Proof of the Reason, and by the argument as a whole.
- Cicero "Ad Herennium"