Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, chapter 13, section 38

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[38] Consequently when we come across denunciations such as that directed against Rullus for the obscurity of his language,¹ or against Piso for his utter incapacity as a speaker,² or against Antony³ for his lack of taste and his complete ignorance both of words and things, we shall give then our sanction as reasonable concessions to passion and just resentment, and as useful in stirring up hatred against those whom it is desired to render unpopular.

1 de Leq. Agr. II. v. 13.

2 in Pis. i. 30, etc.

3 Phil. ii. 4, iii, 4, xiii. 19, etc.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.

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