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Isocrates
was an exponent of a different style of oratory: he is
neat and polished and better suited to the fencingschool than to the battlefield. He elaborated all the
graces of style, nor was he without justification. For
lie had trained himself for the lecture-room and not
the law-courts. He is ready in invention, his moral
ideals are high and the care which he bestows upon
his rhythm is such as to be a positive fault.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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