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[90] And this rule applies not merely to the hands, but to all gesture and to the voice as well. For in delivering the period stetit soleatus praetor populi Romani,1 it would be wrong to imitate Verres leaning on his mistress, or in uttering the phrase caedebatur in medio [p. 293] foro Messanae2 to make the side writhe, as it does when quivering beneath the lash, or to utter shrieks, such as are extorted by pain.

1 There in his slippers stood the praetor of the Roman people." Verr. v. xxxiii. 86: see VIII. iii. 64.

2 Verr. v. lxii 162. “He was scourged in the midst of the market-place of Messina.”

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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