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Cicero
also in a passage1 of one of his works, states that
the material of rhetoric is composed of the things
which are brought before it, but makes certain restrictions as to the nature of these things. In
another passage,2 however, he expresses his opinion
that the orator has to speak about all kinds of things;
I will quote his actual words: “although the very
meaning of the name of orator and the fact that
he professes to speak well seem to imply a promise
and undertaking that the orator will speak with
elegance and fullness on any subject that may be
put before him.”
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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