The question of the “kind of style” to be
adopted remains to be discussed. This was described
in my original division1 of my subject as forming its
third portion: for I promised that I would speak of
the art, the artist and the work. But since oratory
is the work both of rhetoric and of the orator, and
since it has many forms, as I shall show, the art and
the artist are involved in the consideration of all
these forms. But they differ greatly from one
another, and not merely in species, as statue differs
from statue, picture from picture and speech from
speech, but in genus as well, as, for example,
Etruscan statues differ from Greek and Asiatic
orators from Attic.
1 II. xiv. 5.
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