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This topic
is discussed by Cicero in the third book of the de
Oratore,1 and, although he touches on it but lightly,
he really covers the whole subject when he says,
One single style of oratory is not suited to every case, nor
to every audience, nor every speaker, nor every occasion.
And he says the same at scarcely greater length in
the Orator.2 But in the first of these works Lucius
Crassus, since he is speaking in the presence of men
distinguished alike for their learning and their eloquence, thinks it sufficient merely to indicate this topic
to his audience for their recognition;
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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