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” The shoulders also
are apt to be jerked to and fro, a fault of which
Demosthenes is said to have cured himself by
speaking on a narrow platform with a spear hanging
immediately above his shoulder, in order that, if in
the heat of his eloquence he failed to avoid this
fault, he might have his attention called to the
fact by a prick from the spear. The only condition
that justifies our walking about while speaking is
if we are pleading in a public trial before a large
number of judges and desire specially to impress our
arguments upon them individually.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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