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And since
philosophy falls into three divisions, physics, ethics
and dialectic, which, I ask you, of these departments is not closely connected with the task of the
orator?
Let us reverse the order just given and deal first
with the third department which is entirely concerned with words. If it be true that to know the
properties of each word, to clear away ambiguities,
to unravel perplexities, to distinguish between truth
and falsehood, to prove or to refute as may be
desired, all form part of the functions of an orator,
who is there that can doubt the truth of my contention?
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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