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In continuous and flowing passages a most becoming gesture is slightly to extend
the arm with shoulders well thrown back and the
fingers opening as the hand moves forward. But
when we have to speak in specially rich or impressive style, as, for example, in the passage saxa atiqu
solitudines voci respondent,1 the arm will be thrown out
in a stately sidelong sweep and the words will, as
it were, expand in unison with the gesture.
1 pro Arh. viii. 19. See VIII. iii. 75 and IX. iv. 44. “Rocks and solitude make 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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