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They will perhaps produce a long
list of orators who are most effective in the courts
but have never sat under a geometrician and whose
understanding of music is confined to the pleasure
which their ears, like those of other men, derive
from it. To such critics I reply, and Cicero frequently
makes the same remark in his Orator, that I am
not describing any orator who actually exists or has
existed, but have in my mind's eye an ideal orator,
perfect down to the smallest detail.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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