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If our reason did not make these facts
obvious, we should still be led by historical examples
to believe their truth. For Pericles, whose eloquence, despite the fact that it has left no visible
record for posterity, was none the less, if we may
believe the historians and that free-speaking tribe,
the old comic poets, endowed with almost incredible
force, is known to have been a pupil of the physicist
Anaxagoras, while Demosthenes, greatest of all the
orators of Greece, sat at the feet of Plato.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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