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Brevity
and copiousness are determined not so much by the
nature as by the compass of the subject. For, just as
in deliberations the question is generally less complicated, so in forensic cases it is often of less
importance.
Anyone who is content to read not merely speeches,
but history as well, in preference to growing grey over
the notebooks of the rhetoricians, will realise the
truth of what I say: for in the historians the speeches
delivered to the people and the opinions expressed
in the senate often provide examples of advice and
dissuasion.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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