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For his language, although actually censured
by those who regard the dignity, the stately
stride and sonorous utterance of Sophocles as being
more sublime, has a closer affinity to that of oratory,
while he is full of striking reflexions, in which,
indeed, in their special sphere, he rivals the
philosophers themselves, and for defence and attack may be compared with any orator that has
won renown in the courts. Finally, although admirable in every kind of emotional appeal, he is
easily supreme in the power to excite pity.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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