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There are many other clever speakers, but it
would be a long task to deal with them all. Domitius
Afer1 and Julius Africanus2 are by far the most distinguished. The former is superior in art and in
every department of oratory, indeed he may he
ranked with the old orators without fear of
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contradiction. The latter shows greater energy, but is too
great a precisian in the choice of words, prone to
tediously long periods and somewhat extravagant in
his metaphors. There have been distinguished
talents even of more recent date.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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