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A gentle delivery is most often best suited to the
exordium. For there is nothing better calculated
than modesty to win the good-will of the judge,
although there are exceptions to the rule, since, as I
have already pointed out,1 all exordia are not delivered
in the same manner. But, generally speaking, a
quiet voice, a modest gesture, a toga sitting well
upon the shoulder, and a gentle motion of the sides
to right and left, accompanied by a corresponding
movement of the eyes, will all be found to produce
a becoming effect.
1 IV. i. 40.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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