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Who
would tolerate me if in a work such as this I were
to prescribe avoidance of exposure to sun, wind, rain
or parching heat? If we are called upon to speak
in the sun or on a windy, wet or warm day, is that a
reason for deserting the client whom we have undertaken to defend? While as for the warning given
by some that the orator should not speak when
dyspeptic, replete or drunk, or immediately after
vomiting, I think that no sane person would dream
of declaiming under such circumstances.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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