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For it is with good cause that Lucius Crassus, in the
[p. 385]
third book of the de Oratore,1 affirms that all that is
said concerning equity, justice, truth and the good,
and their opposites, forms part of the studies of an
orator, and that the philosophers, when they exert
their powers of speaking to defend these virtues, are
using the weapons of rhetoric, not their own. But
he also confesses that the knowledge of these subjects must be sought from the philosophers for the
reason that, in his opinion, philosophy has more
effective possession of them.
1 Chs. xx. xxvii. and xxxi.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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