Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, chapter 1, section 27

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[27] Was not this the man conceived by Virgil and described as quelling a riot when torches and stones have begun to fly:¹

“Then, if before their eyes some statesman grave
Stand forth, with virtue and high service crowned,
Straight are they dumb and stand intent to hear.
”

Here then we have one who is before all else a good man, and it is only after this that the poet adds that he is skilled in speaking:

“His words their minds control, their passions soothe.”

Again,

1 Aen. i. 151 sqq.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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