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The full periodic
style is well adapted to the exordium of important
cases, where the theme requires the orator to express
anxiety, admiration or pity: the same is true of
commonplaces and all kinds of amplification. But it
should be severe when we are prosecuting and
expansive in panegyric. It is also most effective in
the peroration.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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