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The art of oratory, as taught by most authorities, and those the best, consists of five parts:-
invention, arrangement, expression, memory, and delivery
or action (the two latter terms being used synonymously). But all speech expressive of purpose involves
also a subject and words.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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