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Still, for
my own part, I think that he will be found even more
useful by declaimers, in view of the fact that they
have, according to the nature of the various controversial themes, to undertake a number of different
roles and to impersonate fathers, sons, soldiers,
peasants, rich men and poor, the angry man and
the suppliant, the gentle and the harsh. And all
these characters are treated by this poet with
consummate appropriateness.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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