[146]
Nor again
do I account it a fault in Cicero that, in this respect,
he diverged to some extent from the practice of
[p. 591]
Demosthenes. However, my final book will explain
the nature of the difference between our language
and that of Greece.
But I must bring this book to a conclusion without
more delay, since it has already exceeded the limits
designed for it. To sum up then, artistic structure
must be decorous, pleasing and varied.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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