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But it was Cicero
who shed the greatest light not only on the practice
but on the theory of oratory; for he stands alone
among Romans as combining the gift of actual eloquence with that of teaching the art. With him for
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predecessor it would be more modest to be silent, but
for the fact that he himself describes his Rhetorica2
as a youthful indiscreition, while in his later works on
oratory he deliberately omitted the discussion of
certain minor points, on which instruction is generally
desired.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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