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For the rhetorician considers that his duty is merely to declaim and give
instruction in the theory and practice of declamation
and confines his activities to deliberative and judicial
themes, regarding all others as beneath the dignity
of his profession; while the teacher of literature is
not satisfied to take what is left him (and we owe
him a debt of gratitude for this), but even presumes
to handle declamations in character and deliberative
themes,1 tasks which impose the very heaviest burden
on the speaker.
1 suasoriae are declamations on deliberative themes (e.g. Hannibal deliberates whether he should cross the Alps).
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