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It is only on
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rare occasions that it is possible to make them
visible to the eye, as Gaius Julius1 did when Helvius Mancia kept clamouring against him. “I will
show you what you're like!” he cried, and then, as
Mancia persisted in asking him to do so, pointed
with his finger at the picture of a Gaul painted on
a Cimbric shield, a figure to which Mancia bore a
striking resemblance. There were shops round the
forum and the shield had been hung up over one
of them by way of a sign.
1 Cic. de Or. II. lxvi. 266.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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