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As
examples I may cite the praise of Sicily and the rape
[p. 129]
of Proserpine1 in the Verrines, or the famous recital of
the virtues of Gneius Pompeius in the pro Cornelio,2
where the great orator as though the course of his
eloquence had been broken by the mere mention of
the general's name, interrupts the topic on which he
had already embarked and digresses forthwith to sing
his praises.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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