Thus Orcotomus answered several things, and thought he had given satisfactory solutions to all difficulties: but he was mistaken. New doubts were raised, and he was on the point of sinking under them; when Cimonazes came to his assistance. Then the dispute became tumultuous. They stray’d wide of the question, they bewilder’d themselves, they return’d, they bewilder’d themselves a second time, they grew angry, they brawled; from brawling they pass’d to injurious words, and the academical sitting ended.

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