[6]
this statement is however not intended to be accepted
by us as the actual truth, but is inserted to make
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Antonius speak in character, since he was in the
habit of concealing his art. Still Lysias is said to
have maintained this same view, which is defended
on the ground that uneducated persons, barbarians
and slaves, when speaking on their own behalf, say
something that resembles an exordiam, state the facts
of the case, prove, refute and plead for mercy just as
an orator does in his peroration.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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