[57]
But the
rounding of the period to an appropriate close which
is produced by the combination of feet requires some
name; and what name is there more suitable than
rhythm, that is to say, the rhythm of oratory, just as
the enthymeme1 is the syllogism of oratory? For my
own part, to avoid incurring the calumny, from which
even Cicero was not free, I ask my reader, whenever I
speak of the rhythm of artistic structure (as I have
done on every occasion), to understand that I refer
to the rhythm of oratory, not of verse.
1 See v. xiv. 24.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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