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Now it is only rhetoric as practised in their own day
that is condemned by Plato or Socrates, for he
speaks of it as “the manner in which you engage in
public affairs”1: rhetoric in itself he regards as a
genuine and honourable thing, and consequently the
controversy with Gorgias ends with the words, “The
rhetorician therefore must be just and the just man
desirous to do what is just.”2
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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