However, just as panegyric applied to practical matters requires proof, so too a certain semblance of proof is at times required by speeches composed entirely for display.
[4]
But what problem
is involved by the praise of Jupiter Capitolinus, a
stock theme of the sacred Capitoline contest,1 which
is undoubtedly treated in regular rhetorical form?
[p. 467]
1 The quinquennial contest in honour of Jupiter Capitolinus, founded by Domitian in 86.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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