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I fear, however, that I may be regarded as setting
too lofty an ideal for the orator by insisting that he
should be a good man skilled in speaking, or as
imposing too many subjects of study on the learner.
For in addition to the many branches of knowledge
which have to be studied in boyhood and the traditional rules of eloquence, I have enjoined the study
of morals and of civil law, so that I am afraid that
even those who have regarded these things as
essential to my theme, may he appalled at the delay
which they impose and abandon all hope of achievement before they have put my precepts to the test.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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