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For the force
of eloquence is such that it not merely compels the
judge to the conclusion toward which the nature of
the facts lead him, but awakens emotions which
either do not naturally arise from the case or are
stronger than the case would suggest. This is known
as deriosis,1 that is to say, language giving additional
force to things unjust, cruel or hateful, an accomplishment in which Demosthenes created immense
and special effect.
1 Lit. “making terrible.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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