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There
are a number of gradations of tone which may be
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employed to kindle the feeling of the judges. The
most vehement tones that an orator is ever called
upon to use will be employed in passages such as
the following:1 “When the war was begun, Caesar,
and was, in fact, well on its way to a conclusion.”
For he has just said: “I will use my voice to its
fullest power, that all the Roman people may hear
me.” On the other hand, a lower tone, not devoid
of a certain charm, should be employed in passages
such as:2 “What was that sword of yours doing,
'Tubero, that sword that was drawn on the field of
Pharsalus?”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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