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I am ready to admit that such qualities
please many, and I feel no surprise that this should
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be the case. For any kind of eloquence is pleasing
and attractive to the car, and every effort of the
voice inspires a natural pleasure in the soul of man;
indeed this is the sole cause of those familiar gatherings in the Forum or on the Old Wall,1 so that there
is small reason for wonder if any pleader is safe to
draw a ring of listeners from the crowd.
1 The agger of Servius Tullius, which served as a promenadec. The nearest modern parallel may be found in the “Hyde Park orator.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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