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For my own part, and I have authority to support
me, I hold that the material of rhetoric is composed of
everything that may be placed before it as a subject
for speech. Plato, if I read him aright, makes
Socrates1 say to Gorgias that its material is to be
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found in things not words; while in the Phaedrus2
he clearly proves that rhetoric is concerned not
merely with law-courts and public assemblies, but with
private and domestic affairs as well: from which it is
obvious that this was the view of Plato himself.
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