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But it is our orators, above all, who enable us to
match our Roman eloquence against that of Greece.
For I would set Cicero against any one of their
orators without fear of refutation. I know well
enough what a storm I shall raise by this assertion,
more especially since I do not propose for the
moment1 to compare him with Demosthenes; for
there would be no point in such a comparison, as I
consider that Demosthenes should be the object of
special study, and not merely studied, but even committed to memory.
1 See XII. i. 14 sqq., also XII x. 12 sqq.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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