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These are the modulations denounced
by Demosthenes1 and Aeschines,2 but they do not
necessarily for that reason merit our disapprobation.
For as each of these orators taunts the other with
making use of them, it is clear that they were employed
by both. We may be sure that Demosthenes did not
restrict himself to his ordinary simplicity of tone when
he swore by those that fought for their country at
Marathon, Plataea and Salamis,3 nor did Aeschines
employ a colloquial utterance when he lamented for
the fate of Thebes.4
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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