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Now
delivery is a matter of voice, as to the mode in which it should be used for
each particular emotion; when it should be loud, when low, when intermediate;
and how the tones, that is, shrill, deep, and intermediate, should be used; and
what rhythms are adapted to each subject. For there are three qualities that are
considered,—volume, harmony, rhythm. Those who use these properly
nearly always carry off the prizes in dramatic contests, and as at the present
day actors have greater influence on the stage than the poets, it is the same In
political1 contests, owing to the corruptness of our forms of
government.
1 In the law courts and public assembly.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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