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In the statement of facts the hand
should on most occasions be further extended, the
toga allowed to slip back, the gestures sharply distinguished and the voice colloquial, but slightly more
emphatic, while there should also be uniformity of
tone. Such, at any rate, should be the delivery of
a passage such as the following:1 “For Quintus
Ligarius, since there was no hint of the likelihood of
the war in Africa,” or2 “Aulus Cluentius Habitus,
this man's father.” But different methods may be
called for in this same portion of the speech, in
passionate utterances such as, “The mother-in-law
weds her son-in-law,”3 or in pathetic passages such
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as, “There in the market-place of Laodicea was displayed a grievous and afflicting spectacle for all the
province of Asia to behold.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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