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When the
masters of sculpture and painting desired to carve
or paint forms of ideal beauty, they never fell into
the error of taking some Bagoas or Megabyzus1 as
models, but rightly selected the well-known Doryphorus,2 equally adapted either for the fields of war
or for the wrestling school, and other warlike and
athletic youths as types of physical beauty. Shall
we then, who are endeavouring to mould the ideal
orator, equip eloquence not with weapons but with
timbrels?
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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