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But the utterance must be fuller,
slower, and consequently sweeter, when the orator
says,1 “But in an assembly of the Homan people,
and when he was performing his official functions.”
In this passage every sound should e drawn out,
we should dwell upon the vowel-sounds and speak
fill-throated. Still fuller should be the stream of our
voice in the invocation,2 “You, hills and groves of
Alba”; while a tone not far removed from chanting,
and dying away to a cadence, should be employed in
delivering the phrase,3 “Rocks and solitudes answer
to the voice.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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