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Those
who refused to make the sphere of oratory allinclusive, have been obliged to make somewhat forced
and long-winded distinctions: among these I may
mention Ariston, the pupil of the Peripatetic Critolaus, who produced the following definition, “Rhetoric
is the science of seeing and uttering what ought to be
said on political questions in language that is likely to
prove persuasive to the people.”
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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