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Again Gorgias,1in the dialogue of Plato that takes
its title from his name, says practically the same
thing, but Plato intends it to be taken as the opinion
of Gorgias, not as his own. Cicero2 in more than
one passage defined the duty of an orator as “speaking in a persuasive manner.”
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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