[2]
In the de Oratore1 of
Cicero, Lucius Crassus says that he practised this
continually, while Cicero himself advocates it again
and again, nay, he actually published translations
of Xenophon and Plato,2 which were the result of
this form of exercise. Messala likewise gave it his
approval, and we have a number of translations of
speeches from his hand; he even succeeded in
coping with the delicacy of Hyperides' speech in
defence of Phryne, a task of exceeding difficulty for
a Roman.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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