[7]
This explains why he studied
[p. 247]
under the instruction of the actor Andronicus with
such diligence and success as thoroughly to justify
the remark made by Aeschines to the Rhodians when
they expressed their admiration of the speech of
Demosthenes on behalf of Ctesiphon, “What would
you have said if you had heard him yourselves?”1
Cicero likewise regards action as the supreme element
of oratory.
1 de Or. III. lvi. 213. Aeschincs in exile at Rhodes first recited his own speech against Ctesiphon, and then by special request read Demosthenes' reply, the famous De Corona.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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