Rhetoric Day 99.1
If the hearers have been convinced, if our opponent’s speech has gained their credence – and this will not be hard for us to know, since we are well aware of the means by which belief is ordinarily effected – . . . we shall make our Subtle Approach to the cause by the following means: the point which our adversaries have regarded as their strongest support we shall promise to discuss first; we shall begin with a statement made by the opponent, and particularly with that which he made last; and we shall use Indecision, along with an exclamation of astonishment: “What had I best say?” or “To what point shall I first reply?”
- Cicero "Ad Herennium"
