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The safest and most rational course seems to be to
follow the authority of the majority. There is,
then, as I have said, one kind concerned with praise
and blame, which, however, derives its name from
the better of its two functions and is called laudatory; others however call it demonstrative. Both
names are believed to be derived from the Greek in
which the corresponding terms are encomiastic, and
epideictic.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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