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One of the poets1
says that he does not care whether Caesar be white
or black. That is madness. But reverse the case.
Suppose that Caesar said it of the poet? That
would be arrogance. The tragic and comic poets
pay special attention to character, since they introduce a great number and variety of persons. Those
who wrote speeches2
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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