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“And so, just at the moment when he thought his
speech was showing him at his best and he had
uttered the following solemn words, words designed
to prove a master-stroke of art, 'Look at the fortunes of mankind, gentlemen, look at the aged form
of Gaius Fabricius,' just at that very moment, I
say, when he had repeated the word 'look' several
times by way of making his words all the more
impressive, he looked himself, and found that Fabricius had slunk out of court with his head hanging
down.” I will not quote the rest of the passage,
for it is well known. But he develops the theme
[p. 461]
still further although the plain facts amount simply
to this, that Fabricius had left the court.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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