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These subtle
teachers (for such they have persuaded themselves
and others that they are) have laid it down that
the παράδειγμα1 is best suited for actual speech and
the ἐνθύμημα2 for writing. My own view is that
there is absolutely no difference between writing
well and speaking well, and that a written speech
is merely a record of one that has actually been
delivered. Consequently it must in my opinion
possess every kind of merit, and note that I say
merit, not fault. For I know that faults do sometimes meet with the approval of the uneducated.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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