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includes judgment under mention; but in my opinion
judgment is so inextricably mingled with the first
three departments of rhetoric (for without judgment
neither expression nor arrangement are possible), that
I think that even delivery owes much to it. I say
this with all the greater confidence because Cicero in
[p. 387]
his Partitiones oratoriae1 arrives at the same five-fold
division of which I have just spoken. For after an
initial division of oratory into invention and expression,
he assigns matter and arrangement to invention, words
and delivery to expression, and makes memory a fifth
department common to them all and acting as their
guardian. Again in the Orator2 he states that eloquence consists of five things, and in view of the fact
that this is a later work we may accept this as his
more settled opinion.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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